{"id":5285,"date":"2006-04-26T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/04\/26\/water-torture-bathtub-suit-st"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:58","slug":"water-torture-bathtub-suit-still-afloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/26\/water-torture-bathtub-suit-still-afloat\/","title":{"rendered":"water-torture bathtub suit still afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No news is, alas, not always good news in the frivolous-litigation bizz. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A month ago, <\/FONT>we wondered<\/FONT><\/A> whether the newsless passing of a reported <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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court date in the noisy-condo-bathtub<\/EM> suit of Smith v. Peterson<\/EM> meant that <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the suit had been dropped by loyal-son lawyer <\/FONT>Sheldon Smith<\/FONT><\/A>, or settled <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(after a little suasion from his partners at Denver’s <\/FONT>Holland and Hart<\/FONT><\/A>).  For <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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more details on the facts and “law,” see our <\/FONT>prior post<\/FONT><\/A> from Feb. 28, 2006, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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plus <\/FONT>Overlawyered<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> and Suz-at-large<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>)  We can now report that the soggy suit <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lives on.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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     As you know, <\/FONT><\/FONT>we dig<\/FONT><\/A> Suz at Suz-at-Large<\/FONT><\/A>.<\/EM>  Today, <\/FONT>Suz<\/EM> proved<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> that, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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among her many talents, she can dig for interesting news to satisfy her <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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curious readership.  Suz went to one of the primary sources, defendant’s <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lawyer and friend, <\/FONT>Michael Dowling<\/FONT><\/A>.  Dowling told her that nothing<\/EM> has <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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happened in the case and that the newspaper article got it wrong — March <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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22 was not a hearing date, but merely a status tickler for Denver District <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Court Judge <\/FONT>Ronald Mullins<\/FONT><\/A>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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     With Suz and Walter, and even Prof. Yabut, on the case, rest assured <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that you will be among the first to learn of any further developments.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/STRONG><\/EM>  In an email late last night (well, late on the East Coast), <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Suz mentioned that she and Dowling discussed f\/k\/a’s coverage <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of Smith v.Peterson<\/EM>.   We hereby offer our official invitation to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Michael Dowling to drop by with a Comment or send the Editor <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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an email, with any insights or perspectives to offer on the case <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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or our commentary (don’t worry: confidences are strictly held <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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spider in the bathtub —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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she wants it caught <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                  and brought outside<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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   dagosan<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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No news is, alas, not always good news in the frivolous-litigation bizz. A month ago, we wondered whether the newsless passing of a reported court date in the noisy-condo-bathtub suit of Smith v. Peterson meant that the suit had been dropped by loyal-son lawyer Sheldon Smith, or settled (after a little suasion from his partners at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1nf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12671,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}