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Blogger Successfully Quashes Subpoena
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."
Are you saying lawyers aren't important?
Way to get sued!
The Mothership
I'm just wondering why, genetically speaking, it should feel so good to hear about justice being served? Justice, fairness, reciprocity, selflessness: these things naturally feel good to most people, while their opposites usually feel bad, even when they have absolutely nothing to do with us.
If we were truly selfish creatures, wouldn't the opposite be true? We would have evidence that we could get away with our selfishness, and that would feel good. It seems our genetics code for cooperative behaviors over selfish ones. Is this simply the selfish best choice for individuals, to cooperate with each other, or can genes code for behaviors that are detrimental to the individual but good for the gene pool overall?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The blogger's name is Kathleen Seidel, not Katherine. The previous Slashdot story got this wrong as well.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
Wouldn't a female overlord be an overlady?
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
I'm calling PETA and the *SPCA on you! If you hate your 'gators so much, why not just put them to sleep instead of torturing them?
Kevin Smith on Prince
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!
I hope you never get prosecuted or sued by the RIAA because your neighbor's son hacked your wireless router and used it to play with torrentz.
I hope your civil rights are never violated or that you never need the protection of bankruptcy court.
I hope you never have a problem with your income taxes, or a dispute with your business partner or get rear-ended by a drunk driver.
I hope you never have to set up a trust fund to care for a relative who is too ill to care for herself or have a dispute with your bank or have your identity stolen.
I hope you never get married unwisely and have to divorce from a spouse who wants to hurt you as much as possible.
I hope you never get overlooked for promotion because you are too old, or too black or too female.
It can be argued that lawyers do as much to protect our freedoms as the men and women in our military. Maybe more.
People who think our lives and our country would be better without lawyers are as stupid as stupid gets.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
!#&*