re: Poli board attorneys, question about defamation/slander law.

Yeah...a good tax lawyer can get very pricey. $450 is not all that much in that world. Four or five semesters of tax classes does not make an expert. Your experience likely trumps whatever expertise they think they picked up.

don't worry

i didn't tell the family i could represent the corporation b/c i took 4 semesters of tax law in law school

oh all i did was point out the tax treatment of health care plans. tax 1 stuff

and i wasn't good in class but Kalinka (RIP) loved me

i did crush tax policy b/c i gave a presentation and didn't have to pay attention

He can sue her for whatever he wants. Doesn't mean he will win.

There are several factors here, including:

1. Bannon is a public figure. He has to prove that the statement was made with an intent to cause him damage.

2. There are various immunities which apply to elected officials in discussing policy issues.

3. Anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) laws may provide for dismissal on First Amendment grounds and an award of attorney fees to Pelosi before the first deposition can be taken. And

4. truth is a defense to defamation.

Does he work for Steptoe? If so I have met him several times.

No knowledge. Just hope. Decreases the value of the degree...you know?

i don't know if it's been said, but in addition to being a public figure, that's likely going to be defended as political speech, which is our most protected form of speech.

I think those guys use him as outside counsel. I'm not sure about that however. He was a sole practitioner. There was a firm of sole practitioners. He was the only one left. One got appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court. He got caught up in the gay marriage thing here. We basically unelected the entire Supreme Court. Two others are District Judges. So he went to an old money country club firm. After the first year they figured out he was the largest billing attorney in the office. It was a strange deal. The first year he was at the new firm I show up to talk to him about my taxes. It gets cold up here in the winter, so I'm in a corduroy sports coat, mock turtleneck and blue jeans. I wear stuff like this in front of judges and elected people, I didn't think there would be an issue with my dress at a place that I was writing a check to. They all look at me. You could see their contempt, every attorney in that place had this practice and wealth handed down to them.

So we go another year. During hte year something happened. The Iowa Supreme Court had a ruling about tortfeasors. I'm on the board on my industry PAC. Long story made short, we overturned the Supreme Court legislatively, and against the wishes (and lobbying) of the Iowa trial bar. So I walk in their office to talk about my personal taxes. Look, I don't dress up for anyone, but I don't make it a point to try to offend anyone, so I dress up. I didn't need to. All of them were like welcome sir. How are you sir. I don't care, and they're good guys, but that third generation hand me down law practice old money country club crowd is one group of fake people. They're just no that smart. When the Governor signed the bill, I was there. To this day they have no idea I was involved. The only reason they treated me well is they had a year to see how much my attorney billed.

And to correct the record, it might not have been the other attorney on here that indicated the employees were being treated unfairly. I'm not sure how anyone could come to the conclusion an untaxed dollar of benefit is not fair compared to the employer who has to spend money, so he can make less money, so he an pay less in tax. It might have been the economist that suggested this.

Anyway, that's probably way too much information. Someone could put two and two together and stalk me, so I'm out.

Good evening to you.

Uh no. I love how offended you guys get when you see someone doesn't agree with your brain dead point of views.

He will never sue. He won't even threaten to sue because she would embarrass him when she calls his bluff and he flinches.

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I'm the furthest thing from hostile. I'm as laid back as they come. You can frick with someone and not be "hostile".

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You're my favorite kind then ... we're having a good time, you're laughing at my good ole boy guips while looking for a gotcha opening ... then all of the sudden you hear the other attorneys at the table laughing and the stenographer asks me to repeat something because she was laughing and lost her place ... so I ask her to read back to where she lost me ...

... and then you go hostile with something like, "but are you an expert at this or that" ... and then I know I've got you.

Anyways - it would be fun, I'm sure.

You're not in Construction Law by chance are you?