The TV host says a phone call should have sufficed to ask a retired teacher to make changes in his Oprah-for-president campaign (Sept. 25), which she calls “a flattering thing”. (“Oprah Says Her Lawyers Overreacted”, AP/Washington Post, Sept. 25).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on September 26, 2006
The TV host says a phone call should have sufficed to ask a retired teacher to make changes in his Oprah-for-president campaign (Sept. 25), which she calls “a flattering thing”. (“Oprah Says Her Lawyers Overreacted”, AP/Washington Post, Sept. 25).
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Could have been worse. At least Oprah didn’t hire that idiot who labels all of his cease-and-desist letters “confidential legal communications.”
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