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by Mike Caswell

Western Wind Energy Corp. has filed another petition in the Supreme Court of British Columbia looking to identify the Stockhouse user known as "patheticnews." The company says that patheticnews authored a forum message which stated that Western Wind had "ripped [its] shareholders" with a deal to buy land in California. The company previously obtained the user's IP address from Stockhouse, and is now asking that the courts order Telus Corp. to provide the user's name.

While Western Wind has not yet sued patheticnews, it is actively looking to identify him as well as another Stockhouse user called "j_mart." The company claims that the two users were responsible for many defamatory posts earlier this year, some of which called Western Wind's chief executive officer, Jeff Ciachurski, a crook and a stock manipulator. The company petitioned Stockhouse to provide identifying information for the users on May 17, 2012, and won a court order two weeks later compelling Stockhouse to provide user records.

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