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Jeremiah Donati is a Spineless, [ muschi ]

Frog79

Active Member
As long as TCU is complying with state law, which in this case is 100% open, liability should not be a concern IMO.
Theoretically yes but anyone can sue and bring a sleazy “expert” to testify differently. You will still have to defend this kind of lawsuit.
Yes. and attorneys can get sanctioned for filing frivolous lawsuits.

So I would say there is no legal risk. The only reason not to go full capacity, IMHO, is fear of public perception.
What a joke. Attorneys file frivolous lawsuits all the time. I saw it routinely when I was practicing medicine. As far as I could tell there were no adverse consequences to the ambulance chasing lawyers filing ridiculous tort claims.
 

steelfrog

Tier 1
Theoretically yes but anyone can sue and bring a sleazy “expert” to testify differently. You will still have to defend this kind of lawsuit.

What a joke. Attorneys file frivolous lawsuits all the time. I saw it routinely when I was practicing medicine. As far as I could tell there were no adverse consequences to the ambulance chasing lawyers filing ridiculous tort claims.

Correct; there are not.
 

Eight

Member
I do not practice (never have), just got the alphabet soup behind my name bc the knowledge is relevant to what I do, so I am the poor man in this argument.

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Bob Sugar

Active Member
Yeah, well, there are laws on the books but judges RARELY apply them. One prominent North Texas Federal judge at a seminar last year flat out said, Do not file sanctions motions they will not be granted. And that's the attitude of most judges.

Steel has a case right now where a nut job has sued not only Steel's client, but every judge in Dallas county, federal and state, all Texas supreme court justices and the governor of Texas. And this is a guy who has already been adjudicated a "vexatious litigant" in Texas state civil courts and all four federal Texas districts, plus the southern district of Georgia--and those orders have so much teeth in them that he STILL manages to file cases about every 2-4 weeks, and courts do very little to stem the tide. He has also sued Trump and Milania, Biden and his wife in courts in 2 separate states, etc.
You went up against Jonathan Lee Riches? That's awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lee_Riches

Since January 8, 2006, he has filed over 2600 lawsuits in federal district courts across the country, some of which have received considerable press attention. Among the more famous defendants of his lawsuits are New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President of the United States George W. Bush, former Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno, Martha Stewart, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, entrepreneur Steve Jobs, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Somali pirates, and pop star Britney Spears. He also sued the late Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service on November 7, 2007, to prevent him from being deported to Pakistan and tortured upon his release from prison in March 2012. There is no evidence beyond this lawsuit of any attempt to deport Riches.

On April 9, 2008, Riches filed a request for a temporary restraining order in a US District Court against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two, developer Rockstar Games, FCI Williamsburg, and Grand Theft Auto itself, claiming that the defendants "put me in prison." The inmate stated, "Defendants contributed to Plaintiff committing identity theft. Defendant's games show sex, drugs and violence which offends me." Riches continued, "Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross."

Riches attempted to intervene as a plaintiff in the Madoff investment scandal, claiming that he "met Bernard Madoff on eharmony.com in 2001" and taught Madoff identity theft skills.

In May 2009, Riches filed for an injunction against the Guinness Book of World Records, seeking to stop them from listing him as "the most litigious individual in history".]Guinness spokesperson Sara Wilcox told The Huffington Post that there was no such listing, and no plan to create one. "'Most litigious man' is not something Guinness World Records has ever monitored as a record category," she said. The action—like the vast majority of Riches' filings—was dismissed.

Some of Riches' defendants are not even persons subject to suit. These include "Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party" and the "13 tribes of Israel." One lawsuit, in which George W. Bush was the first-named defendant, also includes another 783 defendants that cover 57 pages. They include Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, "Various Buddhist Monks," all survivors of the Holocaust, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, Nordic gods, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.

A number of Riches' lawsuits have been dismissed as being "frivolous, malicious" or for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Willis Hunt, the U.S. District Court Judge who dismissed Riches' suit against Vick as "farcical," opined that his lawsuits were clearly self-promotional. As per 28 U.S. Code § 1915(g), he is barred from proceeding in forma pauperis.

In July 2018, Riches was indicted by a federal grand jury in Arizona. He is charged with making false statements and other frauds after an attempt to file a lawsuit against Gabby Giffords while posing as Jared Lee Loughner.
 

Eight

Member
Yeah, well, there are laws on the books but judges RARELY apply them. One prominent North Texas Federal judge at a seminar last year flat out said, Do not file sanctions motions they will not be granted. And that's the attitude of most judges.

Steel has a case right now where a nut job has sued not only Steel's client, but every judge in Dallas county, federal and state, all Texas supreme court justices and the governor of Texas. And this is a guy who has already been adjudicated a "vexatious litigant" in Texas state civil courts and all four federal Texas districts, plus the southern district of Georgia--and those orders have so much teeth in them that he STILL manages to file cases about every 2-4 weeks, and courts do very little to stem the tide. He has also sued Trump and Milania, Biden and his wife in courts in 2 separate states, etc.

one persons nut job sounds like another's gold mine with all those billable hours
 

Frog-in-law1995

Active Member
I’d love to share a few crazy lawsuits I’ve defended, but would probably get fired for doing so. Suffice to say, in my experience, sanctions for frivolous lawsuits are no more likely in state court. I’ve tried.
 
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