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BROKEN in "Home Town" Court...

 Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
 
 Saturday, October 15th, 2005
  
Below is an interesting Press Release sent to top "quackbuster"  Stephen Barrett, the author of the dubious website, "quackwatch.org's" local newspaper.  But before I let you see that, I want to explain what happened in this case.

In short - Stephen Barrett's claims that I, Tim Bolen, and those people re-posting, or quoting my articles, allegedly having "defamed" him, have now been thoroughly examined in a Court of Law - and Barrett's claims, within that Court of Law, in his own home town of Allentown, Pennsylvania - a Court of Barrett's own choice, have been determined to have no merit. 
 
Specifically, Barrett had sued Koren for repeating my words "delicensed" and "quackpot."  The Judge specifically ruled that these words were not defamatory to Barrett - and threw out Barrett's case against Koren.  Completely.
 

As soon as I get copies of the trial transcripts I will make them available on my website.

Barrett has issued a misleading statement about his loss claiming he is going to file an Appeal.  He, Barrett, claims that the Judge was wrong because he, Barrett, feels because he originally demanded a retraction and Koren refused - that therefore Koren was somehow "acting with malice."  Barrett, we know, claimed in his testimony to be "a legal expert,"  drawing, I presume, on the things he learned from the legal "correspondence course" he took through the mails.


But Barrett just doesn't get it, frankly - for the Judge ruled on Barrett's "malice" claim also, finding that "since there was no defamation in the first place, there was no malice because Koren refused to retract his article."

 
Barrett's attorney, Richard Orloski, I've heard, took this case "on contingency," which would mean that he would get a percentage of the jury award, or any settlement.  Orloski walked away from this case empty-handed - after four years of work.  Orloski, I presume, had relied on Barrett's statements about himself - rather than completing his own research about Barrett before he took the case. 


In Orloski's situation - I think he got his own just desserts - for originally, when Koren was bringing Negrete into the case, Orloski tried to block Negrete from entering the case, claiming "Negrete didn't go to the right laws schools..." 

 

Click HERE to read the Press Release
  

Stay tuned...

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."

For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine" go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

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