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Calling a man a 'dauphin' and 'a little brat' not enough for a libel action involving a court case, judge rules
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Now I know who Jonathan Mullane is
I'd say the lawsuit, regardless of ultimate result, is not going to help this kid.
Whoa!
I was an English major in college and I still had to look up "dauphin" and "ponce".
Didn’t read Huck Finn?
The duke and the dauphin.
or Joan of Arc
I learned the word dauphin from reading a biography of Joan of Arc when I was a kid.
Funny you point that out; In
Funny you point that out; in France where I was born, dauphin can refer to either the eldest son of the King of France or the sea mammal; same spelling.
I have some spelling and grammar problems in both French and English, and with this case taking place in Florida, I thought that the kid had been called a dolphin, which sounds like the cutest libel!
"The Dolphin"...
is my new name for DJT Jr. Je te remercie, dvg.
Yep, a hard lesson
about the Streisand Effect.
Not so hard
His law career was already in the toilet, due to his own actions. He just wasted the court's time and probably some of Dad's money flushing what remained of his reputation away. I wonder what his next career will be.
"former law student"
I guess he missed the day they taught law in law school.
I take it this is the same
I take it this is the same person?
https://boston.suffolk.edu/sjc/pop.php?csnum=SJC_12534
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/2019/sjc-12534....
If I understood it correctly, his father represented him in small claims court ($7000 or less I believe), they lost to Barclays, he had from December 2017 to December 2018 to file a motion to vacate but missed that deadline. In the meantime Barclays also made a counter claim which they won, he tried to appeal in Cambridge District Court but the appeal was denied. (Barclays counsel thought the appeal might have been allowed if he had questioned the amount owed instead of arguing about the Fair Credit Billing Act.)
And then he represented himself before the Massachusetts SJC to try to undo all the other stuff and also lost?
The ruling went the right way, but...
the author is execrable to pick on the ponce who was a 22 yo (?) student at the time, not even a lawyer, on a widely read legal website. That was a career ending article once the submit button was pressed.
It wasn't the article...
It was the student's behavior, not the article that merely reported on court proceedings, that was career-ending.
He was 29, not 22
And a 29 year old should know better.
Definitely read this as
Definitely read this as someone calling someone else a dolphin.
We have not heard the end of this
Mullane also sued another legal news site, Law 360, but the same federal judge who tossed his suit against Above the Law yesterday sent that case back to state court because the Law 360 reporter lives in Massachusetts.
He also has a couple of cases pending before the appeals court, one involving an insurance company and one against the SEC and the Department of Justice. I'm not sure what they're about, since I didn't feel like paying 10 cents a page to retrieve the complaints via the federal court system.
Well, looky there!https://www
Well, looky there!
https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20190522b71
Maybe just pay your bills on time?
> was suing a credit-card company over his credit score
Now I'm no lawyer but from what I've read this isn't the recommended way to increase your credit score.
Doesn't sound like the article wrecked him
Sounds more like his own behavior followed him.
Does he really think the article lost him his internship? Or, did someone where he interned when he pulled this stunt make sure everyone knew about what he did?
Above the law!
I love that site! I read the headline and thought to myself "that sounds like something Above the law would write"