My lawyer's letter to Jonathan Monsarrat's lawyers

[ron_newman]

My lawyer, Dan Booth of Booth Sweet LLP in Cambridge, sent this 18-page letter to Jonathan Monsarrat's lawyers this afternoon. The letter details all the reasons that he considers the lawsuit against me to be groundless, and demands that Monsarrat's lawyers dismiss the case with prejudice by the end of business on Thursday.

If they don't voluntarily drop the case (which they probably won't), Dan Booth will file a motion for dismissal on Monday, using mostly the same arguments that are in this letter. He may also move for sanctions against Monsarrat's lawyers "for bringing bad faith claims."

He gave me full permission to put this letter online and to distribute it in whatever way I see fit. Feel free to point other people at it or to distribute it further.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Thanks. I am not familiar with scribd; what advantage does it have over Dropbox?

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

scribd is neat because it can take pdf files, and display them as more dynamic content, and will display pdf files as searchable documents that can be downloaded in different formats (html, txt, doc, et cetera).

The files become embeddable, and is more machine readable by search engines like Google, if you make your files public (google is actively looking on scribd, wheras I don't think it's crawling through dropbox).

It's also just a kind of pleasant document sharing site. /end convoluted scribd praise

[samcoren.livejournal.com]

Ron - documents on scribd are easier to find in search engines and their embedded viewer is much more mobile friendly than direct links to PDFs.

Solid letter from Mr. Booth - I'm familiar with his work on copyright trolling cases and there's quite a few parallels between what's going on with the DSLJ defamation suit and those.