That's two guys with "@aol.com" addresses for their professional email, a 13-lawyer firm that does personal injury work and insurance litigation, with lead counsel whose specialty is insurance claims and criminal defense (Matthew Baldwin), and a Greenwich CT firm whose named guys
have profiles highlighting their personal injury and wrongful death work.
The idea that *these* are the lawyers representing a former President of the United States in a (bullshit) First Amendment litigation is just laughable
I mean, guys ... John P. Coale is the *retired* lawyer husband of Greta van Susteren. Frank Dudenheffer is a 75 year old New Orleans attorney whose primary practice, per Google, is personal injury, admiralty, & products liability. ROLAND PAUL IS A DAMN TRANSACTIONAL LAWYER
To be clear - the issue with these guys doing PI work isn't that PI work doesn't require real skill and good lawyers. It's that if you're doing PI work, there's no first amendment issues involved
*Yes, I know, he filed three of the same. One against FB, one against Twitter, and a third I haven't bothered to check. Unless someone tells me otherwise, I'm gonna assume they're carbon copies and just do the one.
Let's start with the caption, which is usually a pretty tame and meaningless listing of partie--OH MY GOD
There's just so much wrong here.
First of all, as others have noted, Facebook's terms of service require any user that has a dispute with them to bring those claims in California, and the only possible plaintiffs in this supposed class action would be users, so, umm ...
Ty, I'm wondering if you explained Rule 11 and NY"s malicious prosecution laws to your client. Because you just named a boatload of useless defendants who will do nothing but be dismissed out and have claims against your client.
Let's spend some time talking about the SLAPP suit suspended lolyer @Ty_Clevenger (well, he resigned his CA bar admission while charges were pending, anyway, per docs found by @questauthority) on behalf of his apparently rape-y client, @EdHenry
Important note before we begin: @EdHenry is not, in fact, Ed HELMS. These are, somehow, two different people. Similar names? Yeah. Do they look alike? Sort of. Is Slappy Ed Henry acting in ways an Ed Helms character might? You could say so. Are they the same guy? Definitively not
For fuck's sake, the bill does nothing of the sort. Whatever the merits of the bill, it does nothing even within the same zip code as that. Screenshots to follow
Let's start with the kicker. The bill EXPRESSLY says "of course you can videotape, this isn't changing that"
And then here are the substantive sections - even without that "yes, you can record" paragraph, what part of the new language (the underlined stuff) could have covered that?
This Sheldon Whitehouse thing is really just perfect, isn't it?
Hey, Sheldon: your defense on this one is basically "no, the all-whiteness of my club is based on systemic racism, not a specific rule" which, well, does not make things better
Meanwhile, we have folks on the right pretending to care about racist systems while just making tu quoque arguments.
Guys, guys, you don't have to pretend. You could just actually care