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Miami prof sues Lat, Above the Law ATL for prostitution coverage
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:03 AM In September 2007, Prof. Jones was arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution, after Miami police said that he offered $20 in exchange for sex to a woman who turned out to be an undercover cop. Of course, the story was irresistible to Above the Law, which delights in highlighting lawyers' most unlawyerly behavior. And so the blog ran numerous posts on Jones, dubbing him "The Nutty Professor" and posting the "incident report" on his arrest, on which it commented, "Note the tension between (1) Professor Jones’s pimpin’ ride, a Mercedes SL500, and (2) his alleged offer of a mere $20 to the 'undercover officer possing [sic] as a prostitute.'" It also ran a photocollage forwarded by a reader, which depicted Jones' face on a $20 bill and imagined him conversing with prostitutes. The charges were later dropped, and his record "expunged," reports the National Law Journal, and Jones remains on the Miami faculty.
But, of course, that is not the end of the story. Last week Jones, acting pro se, filed a complaint in federal court in Miami against ATL Founding Editor David Lat, as well as ATL's parent company and David Minkin, the parent's co-founder and publisher. The complaint includes three causes of action based on ATL's alleged insinuation that Jones had committed a crime, and on its posting of the photocollage: 1) false light; 2) invasion of privacy; 3) and copyright infringement, based on ATL's display of a photo of Jones.
http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/11/law-professor-sues-above-law-blog-time.html
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202435125916&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:06 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:26 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:35 AM
But after reading that festering shit pile, I agree that UM should be deeply embarrassed. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:40 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 10:02 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:58 PM
the first paragraph break is midway down the third page. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 9:39 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:36 AM
what a god damn embarrassment. miami people, what do we know about this guy?
http://abovethelaw.com/2009/11/03/Jones%20v%20Minkin%20complaint%20Donald%20Jones%20David%20Minkin%20David%20Lat%20Dead%20Horse%20Media.pdf |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:38 AM
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:41 AM
if that complaint were handed in by a summer associate, it would damage the law student's career. it might cost her a permanent offer. but i guess it's good enough for tenure at Miami. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:39 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:42 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:01 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:36 PM
The professor pro se litigant was Albert Einstein |
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Date: November 4th, 2009 12:24 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 1:04 PM
To be fair, the first paragraph is 2 pages longe. Bound to be a typo in there somehwere. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:44 AM
"This name calling, stereotyping is still displayed." (Preliminary Statement) |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:52 AM
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:03 PM Also, I checked the original ATL posts out of curiosity, and they never refer to the incident report as an "arrest record." |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:05 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 2:22 PM
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 8:58 PM
FYI: A motion for sanctions must be made separately from any other motion and must describe the specific conduct that allegedly violates Rule 11(b). The motion must be served under Rule 5, but it must not be filed or be presented to the court if the challenged paper, claim, defense, contention, or denial is withdrawn or appropriately corrected within 21 days after service or within another time the court sets. If warranted, the court may award to the prevailing party the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred for the motion. |
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Date: November 4th, 2009 1:41 PM
Being that aggressive early on in litigation can backfire on you in more ways than one.
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Date: November 4th, 2009 4:11 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:50 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:51 AM
At other times, he goes straight from the number to the first word, or uses a mother fucking comma -- seriously, I am not making this up -- after the number.
But, I wonder, is my criticism just a white man's failure to credit crit-punctuation? |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:53 AM |
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Date: November 4th, 2009 12:27 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:58 AM
"Enjoining ATL to remove all pictures..."
"Plaintiff demands a trial by jury on all issues that are friable"
This complaint must have been written in extreme haste. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:04 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 11:58 AM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:08 PM
"The articles ridiculing, name-calling and portraying Jones, as the embodiment of animalistic stereotypes served no legitimate purpose." |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:08 PM
djones@law.miami.edu
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 5:59 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 6:34 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:11 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:12 PM
how typically black. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:16 PM
Pretty sure this dood has never practiced law. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:25 PM
since when is racism a tort COA? |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:28 PM
Jews for Jesus, Inc. v. Rapp, 997 So.2d 1098 (Fla. 2008) |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:39 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:44 PM
he could have handed a draft to a homeless woman living out of a garbage bin and the text would have been improved. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:52 PM
Or, if you insist on drafting it yourself, running it by at least one person who has local expertise in that area. I bet that any plaintiff's attorney in the state who even remotely deals with tort law knew of the case and could tell the prof to at least drop that claim. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:39 PM
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:29 PM
I hope you read this thread. After reading your complaint, I can see how this would survive an MTD, but you need to ask yourself where this is likely to end up.
Have you thought about what's going to happen when Lat takes the depositions of the arresting officers? Do you think they're gonna confirm your story, or are they gonna say you offered a female cop $20 for a CBJ? All of those transcripts are public documents, and if Lat wants to screw you, he can freely post them to ATL for everyone's perusal. You should count yourself lucky that the cops didn't pursue charges, and just lay low for a few years until this blows over.
P.S. Were you really forced to take the exit to the red light district by someone cutting you off? I can't imagine how that would happen. Please DESCRIBE the circumstances.
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:33 PM |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 12:41 PM
It looks like the cops themselves described it as an "arrest." They say DMJ "engaged in conversation with undercover . . . during the conversation defendant attempted to offer $20.00 for sex from undercover officer possing as a prostitute."
See Professor, those depos are NOT going to be fun for you, whether your record was expunged or not. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 1:17 PM
ITT: Everyone gets sued under the ancient common law action of "Trespass to a Professor's Ego" |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 1:43 PM And judging from this complaint, some poor lr staffer probably has to put in a shitload of work to get one of his articles into publishable shape. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 1:56 PM
so he's like any other professor. |
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Date: November 3rd, 2009 3:50 PM
Lat should let Elie write on this topic and go out in a supernova. Elie trying to support this guy's legal arguments while simultaneously accusing the police of being racist would possibly lead to the best comments in ATL history.
It'd also let Lat finally pull the plug on Elie. |
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http://abovethelaw.com/2009/11/breaking_jones_v_minkin_dismis.php |
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Date: November 4th, 2009 3:10 PM
Prof. Jones, if ur reading this, you owe me $340 for my time. |
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Date: November 4th, 2009 7:59 PM |