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Blogger Successfully Quashes Subpoena

Posted by kdawson on from the oh-and-here's-your-head dept.

Ares writes "In a follow-up to Blogger Subpoenaed for Criticizing Trial Lawyers, Katherine Seidel's blog indicates that not only has she successfully quashed her subpoena, but the lawyer issuing said subpoena is now under orders to appear and explain why the courts shouldn't sanction him for it. This should be interesting, because in addition to Ms. Seidel's subpoena in New Hampshire, the lawyer issued a similar subpoena to a doctor and a Harvard professor under similar circumstances."

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  1. pro bono? by l2718 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am not sure that there were any legal fees. According to her blog post, Ms. Seidel was represented by the First Amendment team at Public Citizen. Perhaps Public Citizen should be the ones recovering some of the expenses? In any case they should be congratulated for the win!

  2. Re:Sweet justice by Bobby+Mahoney · · Score: 5, Informative
    Scumbag doesn't begin to classify this guy: He's made a career out of extorting the VICP (Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund), which allows one to file a claim for vaccine injury, with no out of pocket legal expenses, because the court pays attorneys fees, regardless of the merit of the case.

    Paraphrased from Kathy's extremely... "in-depth" blog http://www.neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/149:

    Since June of 2006, Mr. Shoemaker (scumbag) has been paid fees in 22 VICP cases, 15 of which were dismissed.

    Total fees paid to this DB for the DISMISSED CASES are up to $254,291.25.

    Total fees paid for cases which resulted in awards were $330.158.04.

    Oh, and it was 4 hours after this info was published on Kathy's Blog that she was served with the Subpoena.

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