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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the timing of Freedman's docket freakout last week is interesting because he know those Safe Harbor motions were filed 4/23, so he knew full well these sanctions motions were coming today.  What did he do in advance of that to make himself some showy headlines, hmm?  He launched his Taylor Swift show.  I guess having Swift's name still in the headlines takes some of the heat from these sanction motions off him and his firm.  Surely this factored into his docket sheet shenanigans calculus:  You think you will try to sanction me?  Wait until I accuse you of extortion of Taylor Swift!

Meanwhile, Freedman still isn't filing his own motions to compel on anything, including the subpoena.  Why is that?  I do not understand his reasoning there.  Is he just underwater and only filing documents with actual deadlines (and sometimes not even those)?  [/quote]

The Taylor stuff came in response to motions filed by Gottlieb (motion to intervene in DC and letter to Liman).[/quote]

Freedman *chose* to accuse Gottlieb of extortion in a letter to Liman that he signed and filed on the docket.  That was an affirmative choice.  Then he made another choice to sign an affidavit swearing to triple hearsay saying the same, and filing it on the docket.  He wasn't forced to file these pleadings; he made an affirmative choice.  That choice -- and the press furor he created through that choice, which is still being written about today perhaps as much or more as Lively's sanctions motions -- is what I'm talking about above.[/quote]

My point was one he didn’t affirmatively file anything, he considered it a responsive pleading and it clearly would not have been filed absent the motion to quash.[/quote]

The only thing Freedman was responding to on [u]Liman's[/u] docket was an extremely simple and normal letter notifying the judge of related proceedings in another district.  You don't file anything in response to such letters, generally -- I have seen many of them and in zero out of the dozens I've seen has anyone ever filed a letter accusing opposing counsel of extortion, lol.

Freedman choosing to see this as a "responsive" pleading was all hubris combined with his desire to deflect attention from today's sanction motions which he knew full well were coming.[/quote]

This. He can file a responsive pleading on the DC docket, where the court can actually do something with it. But that would require him to actually respond to the arguments in the motion to quash and motion to intervene. Also, if it's true that he and Venable are collaborating now (I increasingly do not think this is true) they could have together filed a pleading to moot the motion to quash. If Freedman's goal was to get this evidence of this alleged threat/spoiliation, that would actually work toward accomplishing that goal.

But what Freedman was actually after was a media cycle. Which was obvious to everyone including Liman, which is why he quite rapidly did away with it.[/quote]

“Arlington Mom” and “DC Mom” organically double teaming once again, amazing![/quote]

You do stuff like this whenever someone makes a point you don't like. They don't even have to be supporting Lively or attacking Baldoni. Merely pointing out "yeah so Freedman definitely submitted that letter to the court last week for PR reasons knowing the judge would strike it -- it was not a responsive pleading," which is an obvious point that anyone with even a little knowledge of how litigation works would know, immediately gets you labeled as some kind of Lively shill because it's not slavering devotion to JB or Freedman. It's so, so weird and it's the reason this thread has so little real conversation. This is an interesting case it would be fun to debate. But you have decided people are only allowed to have one opinion about anything and will regulate until that's all that's left.

It's soooooo boring. [/quote]

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