and some dumbass of a lawyer just signed off on it and filed it, probably hoping for a quick settlement, which will not happen. IIRC, the lawyer Nunes has used for other cases has been suspended a couple of times, probably deservedly. This dumpster fire won't get as far as discovery.

Among other things, his license was suspended for a year, beginning January 1, 2009: https://www.vsb.org/docs/Biss_11-26-08.final.pdf

His license was suspended an additional month on 10/2/2009 for continuing to practice law while under suspension. https://www.vsb.org/docs/Biss_11-05-09.pdf

Fresh off suspension, on 10/18/2010 he was given a public reprimand https://www.vsb.org/docs/Biss-101910.pdf

So - if he knows the law as well as he knows the rules of professional conduct, it's likely he wrote it.

(Same attorney who wrote the complaint against the twitter accounts. He asserted torts he cannot possibly prove against the two accounts: Neglgent infliction of emotional distress. In Virginia, as in most jurisdiction, pure emotional harm is not sufficient to create liablity for NIED. It requires bodily injury or damage to personal property . . . so unless it caused him such distress that he's having PTSD, or shock or another ailment that counts for bodily injury, that claim is toast. I used it as "ripped from the headlines - are you smarter than a practicing attorney" quiz for my students preparing for the bar exam. The last couple of years have been a goldmine for that.)

This guy is a poster child for Rule 11 sanctions, at least.

Although his articulaion of the elements of defamation in his suit against one of the twitter accounts was one of the best I've seen. That's actually what triggered me to go look up his record. It looked like someone who had just been through bar review and still had the formal elements memorized to spit out the moment he recognized the defamation question. So I was expecting to find someone who had just been admitted, not someone who had been practicing for a long time (with multiple disciplinary violations).

Maybe he saved his Conviser and pulled the elements from there to draft the claim.

shadow of a case, those numbers would be offensive.

if he dismissed his claim, CNN could continue to use discovery for its counterclaim. Isn't that what a new agency should do.

(And real life since it is a true story)

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their General Counsel, so she knows a bit about the law.

Her suspicion is that Nunes files these dumb suits so that they get entered into the record. Then, even if he drops the suit, while the actual suit gets marked 'Dropped' the filings remain in the court records, so anyone can go back and 'quote' them showing how he tried soooo hard to get justice for all the 'fake news'.

Would absolutely love, love, love for CNN to file a Bad-Faith claim and make him go to court with his suit so the court record shows the assinity of the suit. And with a little luck Nunes or his lawyer(s) get sanctioned or fined for it!

Such frivolous litigation needs to be stopped.

never serve it on CNN and it will be dismissed for procedural reasons by the court clerk. Most likely a cut and paste job. Just another smear attempt with no substance. Defaming a public official is almost impossible if you are a legitimate news organization.

I think that's the term for someone who is a habitual filer of really bad lawsuits. It essentially brands him a legal pariah and he can't just file suits with judicial review.

Between this one, the cow suit, the mom suit, and one or two others I think he has out there, there must be a way to put him in the legal baby pen.

Killer's lawsuit, this!.. Doesn't show respect for the law.

No need to give that vile bastard a single bit of recognition.

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Comic Sans, right?

Glad they're so inept. But good lord, is there any intellectual horsepower on their side?

In the end though, he'll just MILK it for publicity and never reVEAL his hand.

I think he's just HOOFing and puffing for his daddy the bigly BULLshitter.........

We are just so shocked.....



(sorry, my "shift" key sometimes sticks).........

I read this pleading and was wondering a lawyer actually reviwed this piece of dteck

But he's not a very good lawyer (at least not a well-behaved one): https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12760900

Look! Something shiny!!

they ARE sending us their best...which is kind of horrifying.