We will have to find a new nickname for professional plaintiff/serial suer Erik Estavillo, as he is dropping all his lawsuits.

Estavillo wrote that his medical conditions, particularly symptoms related to panic disorder and Crohn’s disease, contributed to his decision to abandon the cases. He indicated that the long wait for cases to be heard was starting to get to him, causing his doctors to advise him to walk away from the lawsuits in order to improve his health. Estavillo also provided us with some individual reasons for dropping each case, mostly due to those being sued making improvements or fixes which seemed to appease Erik.

Estavillo [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/07/21/lawsuit-banned-resistance-player-alleges-sony-violated-free-speech-and-stole-his-money]had sued Sony[/URL] over being banned from the PlayStation Network following Resistance: Fall of Man online gaming sessions. He had alleged that Sony was ineffective at stopping players under the age of 17 from playing the game and that banning him from the network amounted to theft, in regards to his PSN pre-paid points. Estavillo wrote that a signup page for PSN appears to have been added, which requires a parent or master account to add a new account to a PS3, addressing his concern of younger kids playing the game.

Erik [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/11/19/banned-resistance-gamer-targets-ms-and-noa-latest-suits]has also sued[/URL] Microsoft over a red ring of death on his Xbox 360 and Nintendo over a Wii system update that rendered his homebrew channel unusable. Estavillo said he just learned that Microsoft is not charging 360 owners to fix a console that received a RROD and that he has found many websites that would easily allow him to re-install the home brew channel if he so chose to do so.

[URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/11/24/winona-ryder-depeche-mode-factor-wow-lawsuit]A suit against[/URL] World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzards had alleged that characters in WOW walked to slow, thus enabling the game’s publisher to continue to reap monthly subscription fees as it took long periods of time just to travel in the game. Estavillo notes that now, it appears that WOW avatars walk much faster in Ghost mode.

Another factor in dropping the suits was that Estavillo could not afford to pay the process server fees needed to serve the people he had subpoenaed for some of his cases. Those subpoenaed by Estavillo had included [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/11/30/microsoft%E2%80%99s-gates-subpoenaed-rrod-suit]Bill Gates[/URL], [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/11/24/winona-ryder-depeche-mode-factor-wow-lawsuit]Winona Ryder, Depeche Mode’s Martin Lee Gore[/URL], [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/12/02/rappers-subpoenaed-estavillo-suit]Lady Sovereign and Krayzie Bone[/URL] and .

Estavillo will also drop [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/01/25/serial-suer-strikes-again]his most recent case[/URL], which targeted a variety of gaming and popular websites for libel.

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