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Watch What You Say About Lawyers Dept.: Troll Tracker blog sued out of existence

Ted Frank — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:32:59 +0000

The Troll Tracker blog is down shortly after (or before?) a lawsuit filed by a plaintiffs’ attorney and son of federal judge T. John Ward, Jr. sued the blogger and his employer, Cisco, over a post critical of Ward and attorney Eric Albritton. [Prior Art blog via ATL] I couldn’t find the complaint on-line, but I’ll track it down over the weekend. Earlier: Feb. 26; earlier in the series.

Tags: Cisco, Eric Albritton, Judge Ward, Patent Troll Tracker, technology, watch what you say about lawyers

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Update: Maag drops defamation suit

Walter Olson — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:07:37 +0000

Watch what you say about judges dept.: former Illinois judge Gordon Maag has dropped the $110 million defamation lawsuit he had filed against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other defendants over campaign flyers he claimed were false and unfair. An appeals court in November upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the suit, and the Illinois Supreme Court declined to revive it. (Ann Knef, “Gordon Maag drops $110 million defamation suit”, Madison County Record, Apr. 12). Earlier: Dec. 23, 2004; Feb. 6 and Nov. 6, 2006.

Tags: Illinois, libel slander and defamation, Madison County, watch what you say about lawyers

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February 26 roundup

Ted Frank — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:06:32 +0000

High-school basketball player gets TRO over enforcement of technical foul after pushing referee. [Huntington News; Chad @ WaPo]

Madison County court rejects Vioxx litigation tourism. [Point of Law]

Faking disability for accommodation disqualifies bar applicant [Frisch]

DOJ antitrust enforcement doesn’t seem to be consistent with U.S. trade policy position. [Cafe Hayek]

Professor falsely accused of sexual harassment wins defamation lawsuit against former plaintiff, but too late to save his job. [Kirkendall]

Watch what you say dept.: Disbarred attorney and ex-felon sues newspaper, letter-to-editor writer, Illinois Civil Justice League. (His brother won the judicial election anyway.) [Madison County Record; Belleville News Democrat; US v. Amiel Cueto]

Tags: antitrust, disability & schools, harassment law, Illinois, libel slander and defamation, Madison County, roundups, schools, Vioxx, watch what you say about lawyers

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“Will Sue For Food”, cont’d

Walter Olson — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:21:12 +0000

Kentucky trial lawyers just won’t let up in their po-faced indignation about that innocuous cartoon in the state bar magazine (see Feb. 15 roundup). “‘The cartoon exhibits an indifference to the rights of all Kentuckians to access the justice system — the very system the KBA is charged with preserving on behalf of its members and their clients,’ Bowling Green lawyer Steve Downey, the immediate past president of the trial lawyer group, said in a letter to the bar association.” (Andrew Wolfson, “Trial lawyers find nothing funny in cartoon”, Louisville Courier-Journal, Feb. 19). David Lat covers the story (Feb. 20). What would have taken guts, I think, is for the Kentucky bar magazine to have run a cartoon making reference to the state’s deeply embarrassing fen-phen fee scandal. But let’s not hold our breath waiting for that.

Tags: chasing clients, fen-phen, Kentucky, Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud, state trial lawyers groups, watch what you say about lawyers

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