They sued Bolen and Clark and others for libel for telling the truth. It
was a SLAPP suit and recognized as such by the court. (that is a suit
without merit which is simply filed to try to stop someone from doing
something legal by harassment and costs). They ( Barrett, the Canadian
Guy, and the attorney filing the suite who was also part of the suit)
lost that suit, and the judge found that it was a slapp suite, and ruled
that they had to pay for all the costs, about $30,000. One of the
parties in the original suit was the Canadian guy who runs the Canadian
equivalent of quackbusters, and had been successful in preventing
various health advocates such as Clark from speaking in Canada by
threats of bodily harm. Anyway, on appeal 2 of the 3 judgments were
supported, but the judgment against the Canadian was overturned. An
offer was made to the attorney that if the Canadian guy dropped out of
the lawsuit then they would drop him from the creditors who owed the
$30,000 on the slapp suit since most likely the supreme court would find
in favor of the original court. The attorney did not inform the
Canadian of this offer, which he would have accepted, and appealed to
the California supreme court without his concent, at a cost of around
$300,000. They lost on all 3 counts, and a slapp aware was granted on
the $300,000 against the 3 plaintiffs. Then the plaintiff's attorney
split up the costs assigned to the 3 so that almost all the cost went to
the Canadian, who was then sued in Canadian court and lost. So he is
suing the attorney for filing a suit that he did not authorize, and then
assigning almost all the charges from that suit to him to pay. But he
may not get his money even if he wins, the attorney has it seems gone
bankrupt (monetarily as well as morally), even losing his house.
Marshall
Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have read some of this but get lost in legal jargon. What was the
case actually *about?* I know it involved those quackbusters on the
internet but what were they suing Bolen *for*? dee
On 19 Oct 2009, at 21:25, Marshall Dudley wrote:
This is getting funny:
*
FEATURE ARTICLE*
Quackbusters Sue Each Other - All is Not Well in Scumville ...
http://bolenreport.com/feature_articles/feature_article079.htm
Marshall
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