BocuSign Envelope ID: OCF248C2-C842-4B6S-ASIF- 708071 2F ABS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF NEWTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA MONGE & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Plaintifé, CIVIL ACTION No. ‘sucv-2017-002479 RONALD CARLOS and JOHN DOES 1-2, Defendants. JOINT ORDER AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION upon consideration of the Complaint filed by Plaintiff Monge & Associates, P.C., and noting that Plaintiff and Defendant Ron Carlos (hereinafter collectively the “parties”), have signed and approved the substance and form of this Joint Order and Permanent Injunction, the Court finds the following: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that Defendant has published unlawful statements regarding Plaintiff and its associates on the Internet on the third- party website Ripoff Report, including that Plaintifé “uses deceptive practices while signing new cases,” and that “[t]he reps are trained emphatically on persuading callers that it must be ‘divine intervention’ that they reached above attorney but it's all by design.” A full screen shot of Ripoff Report Entry #1 is attached to Plaintiff's‘DocuSlgn Envelope IO: OCF 24862. CO42-4965-AS1F-7ORD12F ABS Complaint as Exhibit “A.” These statements and similar statements are published at the following URLS: * http://www. ripoffreport..com/reports/monge- /georgia/monge-amp-associates~scott-monge 28206820associates While nothing in this Order should be considered to constitute an admission of liability on behalf of Mr. Carlos, the Court GRANTS the Parties’ jointly filed Motion to the extent of determining, consistent with the analysis in this Order, that Ripoff Report Entry #1 contains statements that are actionable as defamation per se and, as such, that a potential jury could find unlawful, unless properly justified. This case now having been resolved in full and nothing remaining pending, this Order represents a final order of the Court. PERMANENT INJUNCTION IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED as follows: a) Defendant and his agents and assigns are prohibited from any further acts of defamation or publication of false and/or misleading statements, comments, or information regarding Plaintiff on any website, social media outlet, or other forum or publication;‘BocuSign Envelope ID: OCF 24802-C842-4865.AS1F-TOBDT 12FA4BS b) Defendant and his agents and assigns are mandated to take all reasonable actions they can under the law to remove the postings including those listed at the following URLs, including requesting removal of all defamatory, disparaging, libelous, = false and materially misleading statements: © http://www. ripof freport .com/reports/monge associates/georgia/monge-amp-associates-scott~ monge-brenda-johnson-stolen-cases—deceptive= practices-sandy-1392493 © http://www. ripoffreport.com/reports/specific search /mongeS205%20associates; c) Defendant is mandated to request that Internet search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! Remove from their search indices the URLs listed above; and, d) Defendant is mandated, as it is foreseeable that the above-referenced URLs and the statements contained thereon will be referenced on additional web pages or search engines in the future, including but not limited to index, directory, and search results pages, to take all reasonable actions available under the law to remove all such web pages from the Internet, including requesting removal from the Internet search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, of all such web pages.