Sorry to hear it, I think every consultancy and freelance dev with a few years experience has been there at least once. Usually when dealing with small business

Sorry to hear it, I think every consultancy and freelance dev with a few years experience has been there at least once. Usually when dealing with small businesses I will get one or two of these every year or so even though I try to filter them closely. Maybe I am a sucker sometimes, but it has always been a small business when it has happened to me, generally those with < $2M or so in annual revenue. I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure it is illegal in the U.S. to publish the names (or details) of people and companies with bad debt. You are free to report them to collections, credit agencies etc, but publishing their names or other details is, I believe, a FCRA/FDCA violation. While generally applied to individuals, from what I understand it also protects corporations (but again, I am not a lawyer). However, I would think publishing a list of businesses that you would not do business with again, like a black list of sorts wouldn't be illegal if you didn't say specifically why. Although I personally would not do this as the realities are it will make you look bad and potentially get you sued costing you money even though it likely would go no where. FCRA = Fair Credit Reporting Act, FDCA = Fair Debt Collection Act.