Posted on 02/22/2014 10:12:10 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Mark Steyn has decided to countersue Michael Mann for $10 million.
The legal document reads like a drama. See below.
FIRST COUNTERCLAIM
130. Plaintiff [Mann] has engaged in a pattern of abusive litigation designed to chill freedom of speech and to stifle legitimate criticism of Plaintiff’s work. He is currently suing Dr Tim Ball in British Columbia over a hoary bit of word play (“should be in the state pen, not Penn State”) applied to innumerable Pennsylvanians over the years. Having initiated the suit, Dr Mann then stalled the discovery process, so that the BC suit is now entering its third year – Mann’s object being to use the process as a punishment, rather than any eventual trial and conviction. See Mann vs Ball et al, British Columbia VLC-S-S-111913 (2011) (exhibit attached).
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131.At the other end of the spectrum, Plaintiff and his Counsel have issued demands that have no basis in law, as they well know – including the preposterous assertion, in response to a parody video by “Minnesotans for Global Warming”, that “Professor Mann’s likeness” is protected from parody and satire…There is a smell to the hockey stick that, in Lady Macbeth’s words, “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten” – nor all the investigations. And so Dr Mann has determined to sue it into respectability.
132. At the same time, Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its respectability – by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia. . .
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I’m guessing that Steyn had to wait until Mann had piled up sufficient offenses. Some things require time. For example, if Steyn asked Mann to produce documents, it would be unreasonable to complain the next day that he had not produced them. But after a certain point, it becomes obvious that Mann is obstructionist and/or hiding something.
At any rate, I hope Mark Steyn wins big.
The left has long used the courts to harass and bully. It’s good to see someone fighting back.
why did he fire his lawyers?
Probably for the same reason that I used to fire my scum bag, low life parasitic, worse than used car salesmen, lawyers...I wasn't satisfied with what I received for what it cost.
I've read that Mann has big "environmentalist" money behind him. I suspect the lawyers are getting paid.
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