Remember the bus company owner who threatened to sue a redditor for libel, sued a customer for complaining about offensive comments made by a driver, and filed over 100 lawsuits against passengers for "liquidated damages" over issues like handing over the wrong printed ticket for a round trip or violating his company's terms of service?

Well, he's now trying to re-open the lawsuit against the complaining passenger with a new attorney after his previous attorney had the case dismissed with prejudice. And he's trying to intimidate redditors by filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the University of Illinois in an attempt to expose their personal data. Also, he—or someone posing as him—has returned to reddit to trash-talk.

Dennis Toeppen, once a notorious domain-squatter, filed a FOIA request with the University of Ilinois requesting "Any and all communications to which Joel Steinfeldt of Office of Public Affairs is a party which mention, relate, or pertain to to Suburban Express, Matthew Finnicum, Murph Finnicum, or Jeremy Leval, for the period 1/1/2013 to present." A link to the electronic files generated in response to the FOIA request was then posted to reddit.

Murph Finnicum was the name associated with the redditor to whom Toeppen's attorney sent a letter demanding that negative posts about Suburban Express be removed. The letter threatened legal action if the posts were not taken down. Jeremy Leval is the customer and Unversity of Illinois graduate student that Toeppen "fined" $500 for posting about an incident between a foreign student and a Suburban Express bus driver. Leval, who is taking reciprocal legal action against Toeppen, has been the subject of rants posted to Suburban Express' website.

In the reddit comments for the FOIA posting, an anonymous poster who is alleged to have been Toeppen—and whose comments were later deleted—said that the requests were an attempt to expose the real life name of "a reddit user who works at the University," and posted information about Joel Steifeldt's salary. He also made a cryptic comment about someone breaking into Jeremy Leval's apartment while he was sleeping and taking things from his refrigerator.

Now, Toeppen has retained a new attorney and has filed a motion to vacate dismissal of the lawsuits he withdrew after the Streisand Effect blowback and attention from attorney Ken White of legal blog Popehat.com. The motion claims that the suit against Leval should have been dismissed without prejudice.

Update: Toeppen's new attorney has filed similar motions in many of the over 100 cases that his previous attorney had requested be dismissed.