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.
Posted by Walter Olson at December 20, 2004 11:37 AMI'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 at December 20, 2004 08:00 PM