Friday, December 31, 2010
Vanessa Kachadurian- Islamic Style Justice!
Thanks to Ali for sending this! America should adapt some of this Islamic justice
stop the lying and theft from Attorneys.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Batman threatens, keeps digging while in a hole.
Shame on you Batman, threatening people is not very nice. Ever think about how much your client is willing to give up in discovery? Oh that will be REAL incriminating but revealing. No wonder no one likes this weasel.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Americans for the Enforcement of Attorney Ethics, AEAE
Americans for the Enforcement
Of Attorney Ethics
Leo Stoller Executive Director
7115 W. North Ave Suite 272
Oak Park, Il 60302
312-545-4554
Welcome to the website of Americans for the Enforcement of Attorney Ethics (AEAE) since 1974. A national group devoted to the strict enforcement of attorney ethics. AEAE maintains a national list of lawyers and law firms that AEAE cannot recommend. If you have any questions regarding any lawyer and/or law firm as to whether they are on the approved list of AEAE or the non-recommended list, you should join AEAE today to avail yourself of this valuable information.
http://www.rentamark.net/aeae.html
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Appeals court reverses itself over Armenian suit
Appeals court reverses itself over Armenian suit
Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:20 PM EST.us-news, us, lawsuit, armenian, turkish-ottoman-empire
Paul Elias, Associated Press
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Friday reversed itself and now says the heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire can seek payment from companies that sold their relatives life insurance.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said a California law labeling the killings as a "genocide" does not conflict with U.S. foreign policy, which the court said is unsettled on the issue.
The ruling was 2-1, the same vote the same judicial panel came to last year when it struck down the California law empowering the heirs to sue companies that sold life insurance policies to Armenians killed in Ottoman-era Turkey during World War I.
Last year, the same panel concluded that the U.S. government has sided with the Turkish government and formally taken the position against labeling the killings as a genocide. Therefore, that panel concluded, California's calling the event a genocide conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, making the state law invalid.
But in a rare and stunning move on Friday, Judge Dorothy Nelson changed her mind and sided with Judge Harry Pregerson, which turned his 2009 dissenting view into law.
"We conclude that there is no express federal policy forbidding states to use the term 'Armenian Genocide,'" Pregerson wrote.
The ruling revived a lawsuit filed by heirs against three German insurers, including Munich Re AG.
"This was totally unexpected," said attorney Brian Kabateck, who represents the Armenian heirs. "It's a great victory for the Armenia people."
Kabateck and other lawyers have filed similar lawsuits against New York Life Insurance Co. and French insurer AXA, which were settled in 2005 for a combined $37.5 million.
Turkey has long denied that the loss of 1.5 million Armenian lives between 1915 and 1919 constituted genocide and instead describes the deaths as resulting from civil unrest that accompanied the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Judge David Thompson, who wrote the now-overturned majority opinion last year, said in dissent that former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush defeated congressional legislation that would have recognized an Armenian genocide. Thompson said those presidential efforts show the United States has a clear foreign policy against recognizing the deaths as a genocide.
The majority opinion Friday called those efforts "informal presidential communications" and not official policy. The court said the insurance companies can file a request for a rehearing. The companies could also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.
Attorney Neil Michael Soltman, who represented the German insurance companies, said an appeal decision hasn't been made.
Soltman said he was surprised by the decision since no new facts or legal cases were presented to the appellate panel between its first decision in August 2009 and the court's about face Friday.
"It's very rare that a panel changes its mind," Soltman said. "Everything is exactly as it was in August 2009, and all of sudden there's a new opinion. It's hard to explain."
Vanessa Kachadurian-Judge orders sanctions against activist Lawyer
Photo above of Barry Silver the King of frivilous lawsuits.
Palm Beach County judge sanctions activist lawyer for ignoring court order
By Jane Musgrave Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 6:48 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, 2010
Those who have watched crusading lawyer Barry Silver have often questioned his tactics.
There was the time he filed a lawsuit on behalf of a dog. There was the time he organized a horn-honking parade to interupt a children's deer hunt. There was the time, when defending a hotdog vendor's right to wear a thong, he had a bikini-clad woman deliver a subpoena to now jailed Commissioner Mary McCarty.
This time, however, a Palm Beach County judge says Silver has gone too far. Saying the Boca Raton lawyer acted in bad faith in a defamation suit he filed against Jews for Jesus, Circuit Judge Edward Fine ordered him to pay $52,828 to lawyers who defended the Christian group.
And, perhaps for the first time in his life, the former state lawmaker doesn't have a pithy quote to sum up his predicament.
In a plea to Fine this week Silver said the ruling "will devastate me, my family and my career as an attorney and as a rabbi."
On Friday, he said simply: "I don't have $50,000."
Mathew Staver, founder of the nonprofit Liberty Counsel which represents Jews for Jesus, applauded Fine's ruling.
"Barry Silver has tried to frame this lawsuit as a polemic against Christianity in general and Jews for Jesus in particular," he said in a statement. "The court has rightly imposed sanctions against this abuse of process."
The seeds for Fine's action were planted years ago.
In 2005, he ordered Silver to pay Liberty Counsel attorney fees because he had ignored orders to pare down his complaint. Last year, Fine again blasted Silver for not removing "redundant, bellicose and unnecessary" language from the suit.
In his brief, Silver said he misunderstood the court's instructions. "My error was honestly made, and the inclusion of these paragraphs was not done in bad faith," he wrote.
The lawsuit itself has a complex history. Silver filed it on 2003 on behalf of Edith Rapp. The Jewish woman was mortified when her stepson wrote a story for a Jews for Jesus newsletter that said she had accepted Jesus shortly before her husband died.
When the suit was dismissed, Silver appealed. The 4th District Court of Appeal kicked it up to the Florida Supreme Court for advice. It wanted to know whether state law allowed people to recover damages if a publication painted them in a false light. The high court found that false light was too broad. But, it said, people can claim defamation if an article "prejudices" them to a "substantial and respectable minority of the community."
The appeals court told Silver to refile his suit without "excessive editorialization."
Silver said his fight isn't over. He is asking Fine to recuse himself, claiming he is biased. If Fine refuses and doesn't reduce the sanctions, Silver said he will appeal.
He acknowledged it could be risky. If it fails, the amount could increase. He offered to make a $500 or $1,000 contribution to the county law library or to legal aid.
In his order, Fine said he wished he could do more to compensate the Liberty Counsel for the time and money it lost responding to Silver's repetitive claims.
Find this article at:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/palm-beach-county-judge-sanctions-activist-lawyer-for-1112580.htm
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Vanessa Kachadurian-Congrats to Anti-Spam Attorney Dan Balsam
Bravo to Attorney Dan Balsam. That "Spam lobbyist Attorney" is a clown and disliked by everyone for his arrogant behavior. To cyber squat and steal someone’s web site, their name, the seal of the federal court plus photo of the defendant is unethical. Why did Batman do this stupid and unlawful behavior? “I did it on a lark to tweek him” what an ass clown.
http://directmag.com/magilla/0811-balsam-kelley-dan-hate-spam/
Featured on Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/27/man-makes-living-suing-spammers/?test=latestnews#content
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/40862269#40862269
This one is filed under “lawyer self-promotion” or is it trying to reach rock star / lawyer status? Gotta love the self love.
http://www.kizoa.com/slideshow/d875212k3656837o1/who-is-bgk
Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog
Posted at 1:34 PM on March 18, 2010 by David Kaufer
San Francisco attorney awarded thousands in spam suit
Source: Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco attorney has been awarded $7,000 in damages for e-mail spam sent to his inbox.
A San Mateo County Superior Court judge ruled last week the seven e-mails Daniel Balsam received from Redwood City-based Trancos Inc. in 2007 were misleading and violated California's 2004 anti-spam law. Trancos is an Internet advertising business.
The law prohibits sending an unsolicited commercial e-mail that misrepresents the source or subject.
Trancos's attorney, Robert Nelson, said only someone who suffers losses as a result of the e-mail message can sue under the state's anti-spam law.
He says Trancos will appeal the ruling.
Lawyers on both sides of Balsam's case said it appeared to be among the first lawsuits by a consumer under the state's anti-spam law to be tried outside small claims court.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Vanessa Kachadurian- Do Lawyers Lie?
Great article here by Adam Freedman
http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/host-article.aspx?PageName=can-lawyers-lie.aspx&PodCastTypeId=4&PageType=ARTICLE
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