NARSOL: We Sued. We Won. Here’s What That Means
FROM NARSOL:
Last May, we watched a hotel honor a mob over a legal contract. We lost a conference we’d spent months planning. We lost significant money that we couldn’t get back. And I had to write a letter to our supporters explaining why.
I ended that letter with a quote. “First, they ignore you. Then, they laugh at you. Then, they fight you. And then you win.”
We’re at the winning part now.
On May 13, 2026, a Wake County Superior Court judge ordered Ronald Creighton Davis of Pierce County, Georgia, to pay NARSOL $18,458.56. Davis spent months posting lies about us on Facebook–that our members are sexual predators, that our founder was a rapist, that we support illegal sexual activity. None of it was true. All of it was designed to generate calls to our hotels and pressure them into canceling our contracts. The first time, it worked. The second time, it did not.
Creighton was served with a lawsuit. He never responded. Not a filing, not a letter, not a phone call to an attorney. Nothing. The court entered judgment on the facts we presented; no one disputed them.
That matters. Not just because of the money–though $18,000 is real, and it covers real losses we sustained. It matters because a court looked at what was done to us and put it in writing: This was defamation. This was tortious interference. This caused harm. That’s on the record now.
We are an organization advocating for the modernization of laws that “sound tough” but, in reality, are ineffective and often harmful. Our partners include the ACLU. We work with the American Law Institute. We don’t advocate for any illegal activity or harm. We never have. And if you visit narsol.org, you can read exactly what we do and what we stand for, in plain English.
Our board members have had a tough year. Some have had their photos posted online with false accusations attached. Some have gotten calls at home, bringing their families into it. They’ve watched websites being created about them and had to decide whether to keep showing up anyway.
They kept showing up. Every one of them. Thank you.
We will not stop advocating for laws that actually keep communities safer, as the evidence shows, rather than laws that just sound tough.
The people trying to stop us haven’t run out of tactics. We haven’t run out of lawyers. And apparently, sometimes, courts work.
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I hope NARSOL alerts the news media that is respective in this case. It should be a warning that we are fighting back.
Just Sayin’, we don’t have to wait for NARSOL to do it. Below is the link to the news release on NARSOL’s website.
NARSOL can’t do all of this alone without members like you and me. Share! Share! Share!
https://www.narsol.org/2026/05/north-carolina-court-awards-narsol-18458-against-man-who-spread-false-claims/
A default absentia win is still a win. Although it’s viewed as a “forfeit” instead of legitimate, hard-fought court win.
#1 Awesome
#2 Have you (whoever it is owed to) actually physically gotten the money? Only asking because many judgements are made but that doesn’t mean someone actually will pay those who are owed. I re-read several times and did not state that the money was actually handed over. Just said it was ordered to be handed over.
#3 There will always be hate groups, KKK, Aryan Nation, and more.
Hope we get an update when the money actually is returned, if it hasn’t been yet. Always nice to get a win.
NARSOL should take this national. A court has now formally ruled that Ronald Creighton Davis engaged in defamation and tortious interference, causing real financial harm to your organization. That matters far beyond one conference cancellation.
For years, opponents have tried to silence reform advocacy through smear campaigns, harassment, and mob pressure instead of facts or evidence. Now there is a court judgment on the record establishing that these attacks crossed the line into unlawful conduct.
Go public with it. Send it to national media outlets, civil liberties organizations, legal commentators, and investigative journalists. Let people see what happens when advocacy groups are targeted with coordinated false accusations designed to destroy contracts and intimidate supporters.
The story is no longer just about registry reform. It’s about defamation, censorship by intimidation, and whether advocacy organizations are allowed to exist without being terrorized into silence.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Expose him.
let’s not get too excited. Davis defaulted, meaning he never responded to the complaint. The court didn’t arrive at any conclusions based on the merits.
THIS.
The real question is, has the defendant manned up and went to court, would NARSOL have won? One reason I have NO FAITH in the courts is that we have rarely seen a person on the public registry win any money in a lawsuit.
That’s good, but collecting from lawsuits like that can be quite challenging. Best of luck.
Not really. Collection is a matter of enforcing the judgement. If there are not funds in a bank account that can be siezed, then his earnings can be attached through wage garnishment.
Collecting on a monetary judgement is difficult when it is a small amount of money (it costs more to collect than the judgement is worth). But a judgement that is north of 18 thousand? Yeah, no probs….just gotta jump through a few hoops.
And a default judgement (where one side ignored the suit)? Almost impossible for them to overturn unless they can show some compelling reason why they ignored the court.
He was fundraising on GiveSendGo for a legal defense. Whether or not he won is another story. Unfortunately, I don’t know how much he raised because the fundraiser was taken offline.
I don’t know how much he has, or if anything he has qualifies as an asset.