Mark Robinson thread | Sues CNN for Naked Africa reporting

05C40 said:
In re lawsuit: Under the NC rules of civil procedure, after filing the complaint and receiving the summons, Robinson has 60 days in which to serve the complaint on the named defendants. So service can be delayed until after the election. Any bets on whether Robinson's lawyers have a long and candid talk with him about how prior to getting to trial, there will be a discovery period and part of that discovery will undoubtedly be a deposition of Robinson taken under oath. And while the whole "under oath" thing has a somewhat elastic quality among Republicans, it has a strictly inelastic quality among trial judges.
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I'm confident the lawyers have already had that talk with him, and they have no intention of ever getting this lawsuit to the discovery stage. They'll voluntarily dismiss after the election. This is just for optics because his repeated claims that the story is a lie were lacking in credibility without him even filing any suit over it.
 
rodoheel said:
I'm confident the lawyers have already had that talk with him, and they have no intention of ever getting this lawsuit to the discovery stage. They'll voluntarily dismiss after the election. This is just for optics because his repeated claims that the story is a lie were lacking in credibility without him even filing any suit over it.
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Agree. Next to zero chance this is a real suit. I'd wager they'll quietly drop it on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or a Friday prior.
 
HeelingAg said:
Agree. Next to zero chance this is a real suit. I'd wager they'll quietly drop it on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or a Friday prior.
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Rumor is that filing such a suit ahead of the election was a GOP demand (as cover for down-ballot Republicans with their own supporters) to avoid trying to have Robinson removed from the ticket. I think it is widely expected to be, ahem, aborted as you note, but the filing law firm has to pay heed to their ethical obligations. I doubt anyone will bring (or would succeed) with an ethics complaint after the case is dropped because presumably it will be dropped at the direction of the client, but no law firm wants to be embroiled in that.
 
nycfan said:
Rumor is that filing such a suit ahead of the election was a GOP demand (as cover for down-ballot Republicans with their own supporters) to avoid trying to have Robinson removed from the ticket. I think it is widely expected to be, ahem, aborted as you note, but the filing law firm has to pay heed to their ethical obligations. I doubt anyone will bring (or would succeed) with an ethics complaint after the case is dropped because presumably it will be dropped at the direction of the client, but no law firm wants to be embroiled in that.
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Upvoted for working the word "aborted" into your post.
 
Robinson can't just drop it and walk away if CNN or the porn shop employee counterclaim first. They may not care enough to go after his broke ass but I wish they would.
 
LosPollosHermanos said:
Robinson can't just drop it and walk away if CNN or the porn shop employee counterclaim first. They may not care enough to go after his broke ass but I wish they would.
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Don't think a potential defendant can file a counterclaim until they are served. This lawsuit has been filed by the plaintiff, but I don't know if the defendants have been served.
 
05C40 said:
Don't think a potential defendant can file a counterclaim until they are served. This lawsuit has been filed by the plaintiff, but I don't know if the defendants have been served.
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Rule 4(j5) says that the Defendant can accept service by filing an ackowledgement of service with the court. Then the Defendant can file the counterclaim. And it's not like the Plaintiff can then come back and say he never intended to serve the lawsuit on the Defendant. But unfortunately CNN probably won't bother with proactively trying to counterlclaim before they are actually served by traditional means.

I just want him to end up like Giuliani selling off everything he owns, although I doubt Robinson has very much to take given his previous bankruptcy and wife's recent bust for day care fraud or whatever it was.
 
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LosPollosHermanos said:
Rule 4(j5) says that the Defendant can accept service by filing an ackowledgement of service with the court. Then the Defendant can file the counterclaim. And it's not like the Plaintiff can then come back and say he never intended to serve the lawsuit on the Defendant. But unfortunately CNN probably won't bother with proactively trying to counterlclaim before they are actually served by traditional means.
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What counterclaim would CNN have at this point? Has Robinson done anything legally actionable?
 
SnoopRob said:
What counterclaim would CNN have at this point? Has Robinson done anything legally actionable?
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I'm not an expert on the subject but corporations can sue individuals for slander too (I think Dominion has done a lot of this over the lies about their voting machines) and Robinson is saying the entire story is flat out tabloid lies made up out of thin air to ruin his candidacy. I'm pretty sure if this case ever gets to discovery it will be unequivocally proven that everything they reported is 100% true. The porn shop owner is also a Defendant and I'm sure he has some sort of actionable claim for being sued for telling the truth.
 
LosPollosHermanos said:
I'm not an expert on the subject but corporations can sue individuals for slander too (I think Dominion has done a lot of this over the lies about their voting machines) and Robinson is saying the entire story is flat out tabloid lies made up out of thin air to ruin his candidacy. I'm pretty sure if this case ever gets to discovery it will be unequivocally proven that everything they reported is 100% true. The porn shop owner is also a Defendant and I'm sure he has some sort of actionable claim for being sued for telling the truth.
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The porn shop owner also has a claim related to minisoldr's delinquent bootleg porn bill. The Lt. Governor owes him money.
 
I have coached a youth basketball team the last few years and I had a really sweet kid play on our team last year. Within the last week or so, his dad has posted a picture of the two of them with Mark Robinson, after all of the damning evidence against him had come out. It really is a cult and a slow moving coup, as Bill Maher calls it.
 
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