Did Lawsuit Have Anything To Do With Spiers' Exodus?

That’s what we wondered after we heard word late today of Elizabeth Spiers‘ abrupt exit from the blog network she founded last year. (Spiers wrote in an e-mail that she and her partners had “an insurmountable difference of opinion regarding long-term strategy” and that she wants “to do some projects that are materially riskier and more experimental than Dead Horse’s existing properties.”)

Last month, Dealbreaker.com posted marketing materials of a hedge fund called Solengo Capital. Solengo Capital, in turn, filed a lawsuit and sought a temporary restraining order against Spiers and Dealbreaker, which eventually took the offending post down.

Spiers’

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