Posted on 09/26/2011 9:09:51 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Just got off on the phone with a friend in the legal field and she says that a potential lawsuit against Random House by anyone of the Palin family involved in the "trash book" will most likely be quietly settled out of court because the idiot McGinniss opened up Random House to a whole lot of trouble and gives the Palin's an upper hand and GIFT in Court because McGinniss waived attorney client privileged between him and RH by talking about it to a third party (Jesse Griffin) and thus Palin's lawyers are entitled to ALL correspondence from Random House concerning the book.
My friend say that Random House may have a lot of leftists there and may hate Sarah Palin with a passion but its pure suicide for them legally to open up their correspondences in the "discovery phase"....they may have more damning info in those correspondence that was meant only for "Random House Eye's Only".
She said Random House and Jon Meachem may do a kabuki dance in the public defending the book and its "sourcing" on these false allegation but behind the scenes they will most likely quickly call for a settlement before the case got to discovery phase or even before the case is brought forth.
Legally, The Palin family has Random House and Joe McGinniss is a terrible legal bind.
(Sarah, Will that be in 20's or 100 dollar bills?)
So what. They had the “public” help them (the media) go through 24 thousand of her emails, hoping to find dirt, and all they found was that she’ was a very engaged, thoughtful governor who actually cared about the people of Alaska!
Too bad we might never get to know who funded that pervert McGinniss to set up camp in a rented lake-front house 30 feet from the Palin house and set up surveillance of the Palin children’s windows.
Did Glen Rice claim he had a relationship or one night stand with Palin? No he said no such thing
Plus you didn’t even read what was said... RH doesn’t want it’s lawyers and their correspondence exposed, they will most likely end it before it even got off of the ground
whatever! You need to read McGinniss private email to Jesse Griffin and what that means legally, that even the leftist media cancelled appearances with him because of legal potential trouble, the discovery phase is damning for RH
$25million and a public retraction...retraction of every point on her list...with a promise to fire everyone involved, named, should be sufficient.
If she offers this, they will settle.
It's cut and dry.
To top it off, NOBODY IN ANY MEDIA ORGANIZATION will ever mention any of the specifics of the book...and it will be pulled from the shelves, never to be seen again.
Every new airing of the lies warrants another suit of even greater monetary value.
I concur 100%.
I vote no on suing. Lawsuits take over your life and not in a good way.
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Translation: Hey everybody, get your free shots on Palin....no penalty, no fines, no backlash. Oh, you might get some temporary heat from the bizz or conservatives but as long as you get some street cred with the libs (and cashed the advanced check) you’re fine.
Sounds like the bogus etheics complaints which almost drove her to bankruptcy.
I would classify that as more info then we need to know.
legal ping. Doesn’t make sense.
Even if the emails DO lead up to the White House...what’re they gonna DO about it?
Remember who runs the Dept. of Justice.
Unless SOMEHOW that tidbit gets out to the public (IF it’s true and it very well may be), which MSM outlet is going to tell anyone? How is it going to get disseminated to the voting public? WE the Patriots suspect the DNC and Barry the Boob to LIKELY be behind it all. How would we convince the public?
IF it leads to O-Crap and his merry band of sycophants, THEN can we march on DC with torches, pitchforks, and various instruments of destruction? I’m getting tired of this...
Just think if discovery uncovered RH and JM correspondence with political figures of a certain persuasion. that would be so juicy. But doubt if RH would be willing to run that risk.
She needs to squeeze that German company and teach the scheming dishonest ba$tards a lesson.
I’d much rather Sarah go all the way to trial with this. This is about more than money. I’m am hoping this goes through massive amounts of discovery.
The question will be what does Sarah want out of this? I would think she could have whatever she wants. Good for her. Sarah and her family deserve everything they can get out of these fools!
Maybe she won’t offer a deal.
Maybe she wants to drag them through the courts and make them give her all their files, letters and email pertaining to McGuiness. Some of which will likely be incriminating.
Maybe she wants to break them.
A polite, lawyerly way of saying she has em' by the short hairs!
It's not a stupid post...and one has to wonder about the lack of knowledge of those that so contend.
If Glen Rice is deposed and says it happened, if the business partner is deposed and says it happened...the most scurrilous of the allegations will have been at least partially proven.
Truth IS an ABSOLUTE defense...especially if the person is a public figure. If it happened, RH and the author are off the hook 100%.
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