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Given your desire to drive frivolity out of our courts, a worthy and necessary goal, I thought you may actually prefer to read the details of the lawsuit described in your Nov. 15 post ("Lawyer sues 'Law & Order' over fictional attorney") and then come to your considered judgment, and make whatever changes on your site you feel justified. Those details can be found here (PDF). -- Ravi Batra, New York, N.Y.
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Well-known Brooklyn attorney Ravi Batra "sued the producers of the television show "Law & Order" for $15 million Friday, claiming they defamed him by portraying him as a crooked attorney in one "ripped from the... [Read More]
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We've posted four more reader letters from our alarmingly backed-up pipeline, at our letters page. Among topics this time: Manhattan attorney Ravi Batra invites us to take a closer look at his lawsuit against the... [Read More]
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I'd like to thank Ravi Batra for providing the link to his complaint. When I read Walter Olson's original post, I had some sympathy for Batra, but now that I've actually read the rambling complaint (which names as defendants, inter alia, Law & Order's casting director, the costume designer, the make-up artist, the wardrobe, the assistant to the executive producer, and the hairstylist) I see that Olson pulled his punches and didn't expose Batra to a tenth of the ridicule to which he was entitled to.
Forgive the anonymity, but I'd otherwise fear Batra would sue me, too, for noting that his lawsuit is an embarrassment to the profession.
Posted by: Anon | December 20, 2004 8:00 PM