Another blast from the past. Extracts from a letter to the editor to City Pages: http://www.citypages.com/letters/detail.asp?TID=719
"City Pages suggests there was something improper in my firm's decision to withdraw from representation of Doug Mann, whose child was one of approximately 40 children named as plaintiffs in the litigation along with the NAACP." "The truth: My firm withdrew from representation of Mr. Mann only after Mr. Mann forwarded to Judge Larson, without prior notice or consultation with my office, his own settlement proposal." Daniel R. Shulman Minneapolis [City Pages replies]: "John Shulman would not discuss the firm's representation of Doug Mann, so my account relies heavily on Daniel Shulman's own letter to Mann informing him of his decision to withdraw as Mann's counsel. Mann now tells me that he did give a working draft of a settlement proposal to the NAACP's Education Committee and sent a copy to Daniel Shulman's office--but not to Judge Gary Larson or the defendants.POSTED: 5/31/2000" Shulman's letter complained that I had publicly criticized the settlement offer. I circulated a letter stating my objections to the settlement offer to NAACP members. The majority of the branch membership voted to reject the settlement soon thereafter. I then sent a letter to Shulman with courtesy copies to the judge and other parties to the lawsuit objecting to Shulmans promotion of his settlement offer in the name of the NAACP and individual plaintiffs. I was a member of the NAACP and an individual plaintiff. I had to act as my own legal representative for a time before I withdrew from the lawsuit. I filed a motion for dismissal without prejudice (which means I can go back to court to sue the state on the same issue anytime I want to). -Doug Mann REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
