Inasane KJ gets thrills about cheerleading for SlepTone and its troublesome preoccupation with suing KJs and venues for settlements. Yes, Robert Kossack did a nice job highlighting the cases and strategies for defendants and the blog is gone. But orders do not disappear. They are in the public domain, as are briefs and other documents filed in the court. Here is an order that Robert highlighted. I was happy to obtain this result on behalf of my clients. http://www.scribd.com/doc/120734609/Federal-Court-Awards-Attorneys-Fees-to-Defendants-Finding-Slep-tone-Karaoke-Lawsuit-Was-A-Shakedown
There have been a number of developments in the Slep-tone mass lawsuits since the most recent comment here. One pertains to a case that Slep-tone filed in Los Angeles naming over 70 defendants, karaoke jockeys and venues. I had the pleasure of representing two of the defendants. Not unlike many of its other income producing cases where Slep-tone sued its own customers, many defendants had settled with Slep-tone. We even paid Slep-tone $5,000 in nuisance value settlement. However, Slep-tone failed to dismiss the case as required by the settlement agreement. So our fight continued. Since it did not file any pre-trial papers or appear at the pre-trial conference, Judge Otis Wright, II, called the parties "comatose" and dismissed Slep-tone's claims for failure to prosecute. We then filed a motion for fees as the prevailing party under the Lanham Act. Slep-tone failed to timely oppose, brought in new counsel and blamed it all on its original lawyer. But Slep-tone had known many months prior of multiple missed deadlines by her in the Las Vegas case and did nothing about it. In fact, Slep-tone had blamed her there too. Judge Wright had none of it. I am happy to report that Judge Wright granted our motion and awarded all fees claimed. In his order, he called Slep-tone's case a "shakedown" and that they took "trolling to the next level." He also found its conduct to be in bad faith and vexatious. A blow-by-blow account can be found on the blog of Las Vegas lawyer, Robert Kossack.
http://soundchoicelasvegaslawsuit.com/los-angeles-court-orders-slep-tone-to-pay-suganos-attorneys-fees-by-a-date-certain/
Other parts of the blog reveal that Slep-tone has sued its investigator APS and Steve Brophy and provided as an exhibit to the complaint its agreement with them contemplating suits of 1000's of defendants.
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Kossack's Blog Is Dead, But Orders Are Not
Inasane KJ gets thrills about cheerleading for SlepTone and its troublesome preoccupation with suing KJs and venues for settlements. Yes, Robert Kossack did a nice job highlighting the cases and strategies for defendants and the blog is gone. But orders do not disappear. They are in the public domain, as are briefs and other documents filed in the court. Here is an order that Robert highlighted. I was happy to obtain this result on behalf of my clients.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/120734609/Federal-Court-Awards-Attorneys-Fees-to-Defendants-Finding-Slep-tone-Karaoke-Lawsuit-Was-A-Shakedown
Craig McLaughlin
www.smartpropertylaw.com