Big big thank you to Auny
@antinoos for pearls of wisdom on Megz legal battles. Every post this morning a gem. It seems unbelievable she is still pressing on with it when the headlines get worse and worse.
Over in LA, there's a long and interesting analysis of the Drone Wars lawsuit about the John Doe pap shots of Archie (that may or may not be the ones on the cover of Bunte Magazine) from Mr Lallas of Levy, Small and Lallas. He says typically they would have 60 days to serve the complaint but that might stretch to 90-180 days if the judge is
helpful 'accommodating, indulging and liberal'. He calls their complaint 'unusual'. Is that legalese for stark raving bonkers and completely hopeless?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could have an intense fight on their hands, which may not work in their favor, if their recent invasion of privacy complaint against snooping paparazzi ever saw a trial.
www.foxnews.com
“We studied the complaint and it is extremely unusual. And by that, I mean the complaint doesn't name any specific defendant – either an entity or an individual,” said Lallas. “This is the first time I've ever seen this in 45 years of practicing law.”
Lallas said the privacy filing is “extraordinary” because the legal system in the U.S. is based on what is called an adversarial system – the concept being there are at least two parties, consisting of a plaintiff group and a defendant group.
Going on to say
Added the firm partner: “This is the quintessential fishing expedition because if you believe the plaintiffs and their attorney in this case, they have filed a civil action without naming a specific defendant to try to take discovery and how would they do that?”
And then the big one
Lallas said the case carries with it some irony in the sense that Harry and Markle, on behalf of their son, “want to avoid unwanted publicity" yet "on the other hand, the mechanism they have chosen is to create more publicity to try to generate a brand in the public arena that lets the tabloids in the paparazzi know they're going to enforce their legal rights wherever it may take them.”