I think basically an expose' on the quackbusters operation. Bolan
especially can be pretty liberal with his comments using words like scum
and so forth. I think basically the courts found that the use of such
derogatory terms were merited by the actions of quackbusters and associates.
Marshall
Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote:
Thanks for the info Marshall, but what were they telling the truth
*about*? Or has this got lost in the mists of time <lol>? dee
On 20 Oct 2009, at 19:07, Marshall Dudley wrote:
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
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