Moore's Lawyer Is As Nutty As Roy

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By Ed Kilgore

... there it is, in a letter from .. Trenton R. Garmon .. from .. Garmon and Lidden ("Attorneys for the People" ) to attorneys for the Alabama Media Group, the company that owns three Alabama newspapers and .. al.com ... The first paragraph tells you all you need to know about .. the care with which it was prepared:

Please allow this to serve as notice that our firm has been retained to represent the Foundation for Moral Law, it’s president Kayla Moore and Chief Justice Roy Moore. We also represent Roy S. Moore and Kayla Moore individually. We do, therefore, alert you to the duties and notices provided herein for your client the Alabama Media Group operating as al.com. This letter is provided in anticipating of our firm preparing and filing a lawsuit against your client and its agents.

The letter goes on, with incomplete sentences and other assaults on grammar and usage ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/moores-lawyer-sends-hilarious-letter-threatening-lawsuits.html

You can find the whole letter at the link. Its author is lucky that Alabama does not require its lawyers to master logic or even standard English

[MrScorpio]

1. He's basically the sleaziest ambulance chaser in Alabama

He has all the ethics of client's crotch while standing in close proximity to a middle school.

[bench scientist]

2. standard threatening tactic.

This a poor attempt at a cease and desist: it's all hot air.
File a defamation suit or GTFO.

[BootinUp]

3. Foundation for Moral Law

With a name like that u can count on immoral actions being taken at any and all times.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Good lord. Just in one paragraph

Last edited Thu Nov 16, 2017, 01:32 AM - Edit history (1)

Please also note that per Alabama law there is a Third Party Tort for Spoliation. Thus, even if your client is notheld to have defamed or otherwise worked civil damages upon our clients, your client may remain responsible in a Court of law for damages caused by the failure to preserve evidence. This is often times refered to as "Adverse Interference".

third-party tort for spoilation (no caps, hyphenate the phrase used as an adjective)

third-party means someone other than the two parties to the letter. If the tort is a third-party tort, the third party may remain responsible, not the party to whom you are writing

court, as a noun referring to a generic court, is not capitalized

The source you likely retrieved this from, after you did a a quick Google search, expressly says that the remedy for spoliation by a party is NOT damages, but . . . wait for it . . . an adverse inference (not an adverse interference)

It is not referred to as "Adverse Interference" - an adverse inference is the penalty imposed for spoliation.

Finally, periods belong inside the quotation. You obviously weren't on law review, and appear to have gotten your law degree from Google-University and, perhaps, your high school diploma as a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.

I wish I was teaching legal drafting this semeseter. I'd love to use this as a contest to see who could find the most mistakes, who could guess what the author really meant, who could rewrite it most coherently, etc.

BTW . . . apologies for any of my own typos. My computer has poltergeists. The poltergeist visiting tonight delays the appearance of whatever I’ve typed for about a line and a half. I hope I’ve caught them all – but I expect not. And – I would never send anything typed with this particular poltergeist to my client, let alone to opposing counsel.

[Turbineguy]

5. That's to be expected.

No decent Lawyer would want him as a client.

And he would only gravitate to a scumbag.

[Gothmog]

6. This lawyer is an idiot

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