Tasini Adds Four New Plaintiffs, Amends Lawsuit Against HuffPo

Jonathan Tasini has added 30 pages of material to his lawsuit against The Huffington Post demanding compensation for unpaid bloggers. But even after taking two more months to gather evidence, Tasini and his lawyers don't reveal any kind of “smoking gun” that might change their odds of winning this legal longshot.

While there are quite a few new paragraphs in the new complaint—Tasini’s lawyers have inflated their 38-page lawsuit into a 68-page lawsuit—there’s not a lot of “there” there. Certainly, nothing here comes close to the being the powerful evidence that Tasini strongly implied he had discovered. What would have really helped is evidence that HuffPo editors made promises that there would be compensation down the road, but they don't have that. And the new complaint barely address the fundamental fact that the bloggers all agreed to this deal. And after spending two months loudly complaining about Arianna Huffington’s behavior, the fact that Tasini has only been able to add four more named plaintiffs to the suit suggests that bloggers aren't exactly outraged over the way they were treated by HuffPo.