Judge throws out Streisand lawsuit

news.com.au ^ | Dec 4, 2003

[DefCon]

ping

[Alouette]

[hotpotato]

excerpt from another article:

But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman on Wednesday ruled that the diva's lawsuit chilled Adelman's free speech rights on a matter of public concern, and ordered the "Yentl" star to pay his legal bills.

The judge noted that Adelman had not tried to photograph Streisand personally and had not even known that he was capturing her estate on film when he snapped the photos from 2,700 feet (820 metres) away.

Goodman also noted that similar photos were published in magazines and on the Internet before Adelman took his aerial shots.

Streisand's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment. In a message posted on his Web site, Adelman said the ruling sends a message to "a celebrity who believes her personal interests are more important (than) the public's constitutional right to free speech." Adelman, 40, retired after selling his TGV software company to Cisco Systems for $115 million in 1996 and Network Alchemy to Nokia for $335 million four years later. He and his wife then began an aerial photography survey of the 1,150-mile (1,850-km) California coastline using his helicopter and a high-resolution camera.

[dighton]

Modest home of Barbra Streisand, humble spokesperson for the Party of the Little Guy.

[prognostigaator]

Adelman said he and his wife had taken pictures of Streisand's home that overlooks the coast at Malibu, near Los Angeles, from a helicopter while cataloguing the erosion of California's coastline.

Nice house, but lots of erosion....

[hotpotato]

gee.... would it be correct to say that Babs was attempting to CENSOR Adelman's free speech???? snarf

[notaliberal]

I don't see a clothes line, do you??? Just checking...

[BenLurkin]

BUMP

[hellinahandcart]

She's about two years away from losing her swimming pool, though.

Pardon me, while I go have a good hard cry.

[perfect stranger]

"Nice house, but lots of erosion...."

True, looks like the place won't be there for more than 50-75 years. It looks ready to slide in now.

[hellinahandcart]

Does his website have a guest book? I think we should all go congratulate Adelman, don't you?

[Freemeorkillme]

On her website, barbrastreisand.com, she admitted she was "thin-skinned", but said: "We live in a country where all people are supposed to have equal rights ... we have to be vigilant to protect those rights."

LOL! So I'll quote you, Barb, when I sue my local Arsenal and local Airports who allow overflight over my house. Woohooo!!(grabbing sides)

Thanks. I needed that. Nearly like the relief of flatulence. LOL!

[hotpotato]

Does his website have a guest book? I think we should all go congratulate Adelman, don't you?

Yep. I sure do. Check out Adelman's "offending" website at http://www.californiacoastline.org

The real kicker in this is that he and his wife were doing this for environmental purposes.... supposedly a cause near and dear to Bab's heart.

[Paul Atreides]

She lives pretty comfortably, for a rabid socialist. I would have figured that she was dirt-poor, after giving all of her vast wealth to AIDS research.

Nice kick in the teeth, for The Schnoz: first The Reagans gets taken off of See-B.S., and now this.

[Bonaparte]

Gotta wonder why the enviros aren't protesting her for contributing to the erosion of our natural coastline. Has she no more respect for the natural wonders of California as she has for freedom of speech? Tsk, tsk. Of course, she and her husband have been so busy lately trying to libel Ronald Reagan, I guess they didn't have time to notice their uglification of our scenic shores and encroachments on Mr. Adelman's civil rights.

[BigLittle]

............Nice House...............................Lots of erosion

[Revolting cat!]

Lots of erosion...

[hotpotato]

Has she no more respect for the natural wonders of California as she has for freedom of speech?

I think her response would be similar to Arianna Huffington's when confronted with the fact that she travels in private jets and limos.... "well... I'm only using what is going to exist anyhow...." It's part of what defines them as the elitists that they are. Why the "little people" don't see it is beyond me.

[river rat]

"....... supposedly a cause near and dear to Bab's heart.

The ONLY cause near and dear to Bab's heart -- is her own fat ass...

The communist, lame brained America hating hag needed this bitch slap...

Semper Fi