The ongoing lawsuit between the Lizzie Borden House and Miss Lizzie’s Coffee has turned ugly, with the owner of Miss Lizzie’s claiming a witness has intimidated him on the museum’s instructions, trying to bully him into bankruptcy.
US Ghost Adventures, which owns the museum and bed-and-breakfast at 230 Second St., last year sued its cafe neighbor at 242 Second St., alleging that Miss Lizzie’s Coffee is violating Lizzie Borden-related trademarks that USGA owns. USGA has filed statements from employees and customers claiming people have mistakenly believed the two businesses are related.
In a brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Miss Lizzie’s Coffee owner Joseph Pereira writes that a witness for US Ghost Adventures has posted Pereira’s “criminal record throughout the Internet and [sent] copies to several vendors and agencies that [Pereira] uses” in an attempt to embarrass him.
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