Goin' Federal !!
!!!FREE the HAND!!!
11-14-08
Ok folks, if ya wanna follow the unfoldings of this Federal Lawsuit,
Case # 3:08-CV-00796
go to blog.contrabandhand.com for the blow by blow update blog.....thanks for the interest and support...M
11-03-08 As of today, Sirote & Permutt have filed and sent me 194 pages of legal documents. Now that's a lot of paper. Guess they're not on the "Save a Tree" program ! Stay tuned, more to come I'm sure.
10-29-08 I filed a "Consent" document that the judge had given us at the hearing, which said whether I wanted to keep this judge on the case or have it changed to another judge. I kept him.
10-23-08 Prelim Hearing
Montgomery, Al., Federal Court House, Rm 4b, 3:00pm. I arrived to find three expensive suit wearing attorneys from Sirote & Permutt, Timothy A. Bush, Robert R. Baugh and Stephen R. Geisler. They were accompanied by boxes of documents and Susan Smith from AU, who is in charge of the Trademark Dept. at AU. The judge was Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody. We were there for a hearing on AU's "Motion for Preliminary Injunction". We were in court for three hours. In the end Judge Coody did not make any ruling and did not grant the injunction at the close of that hearing. Lots of interesting things were discovered and discussed including "widgets". More on that later. I did sort of get the impression that the three lawyers did not go to AU. So that's the short story on our first get together.
10-22-08 Received service by certified mail from the Court of AU's original claim and motion for a "preliminary injunction.
10-20-08 This is the original date for the hearing for AU's "Motion for Preliminary Injunction". The hearing was scheduled for 1:30pm. I was at the Federal Court House at 1:30 to be informed that a marshall was on his way to my house to deliver the notice that the hearing had been changed to 10-23-08. Great timing don't you think,since I was standing at the court house ready to go. I was there and Auburn University wasn't. Hummmm
10-17-08 I filed my "Response in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction".
10-15-08
This is when Hilary Funk, a reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser, broke the story of AU suing me.
9-29-08/When AU went legal on me
The power of sixfingers "Free the Hand" An Update As of today, our beloved Alma Mater has filed a Federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for The Middle District, Eastern Division against me, my fun little sixfinger foam hand and this little lemonade stand project of mine. Now this information came to me by U.S. mail from a law firm in Birmingham, AL named Serote & Permutt. It was a big pile of documents for sure. There were 24 very legal and impressive pages of lawsuit and 34 pages of attachments, for a total of 58 pages. That’s about ½ inch thick of taxpayer paid-through Auburn University-coming to get me lawsuit. Actually this stack of legal papers is only a quarter inch short of being as thick as my foam sixfinger hand. Seems they believe that me and my hand are “unfairly competing” with the University and that I’m misleading all of you folks into believing that Auburn University has sponsored and/or endorsed the sixfinger foam hand. Now I don’t know how much taxpayer money has already been spent by Auburn University to have the good folks over at Serote & Permutt prepare this pile of papers and file this lawsuit against me in Federal Court in Montgomery. WOW! and “War Eagle” (well guess I might not should say “WAR EAGLE” in this little note as the University might file another law suit against me)….Stay tuned for the Federal sixfinger foam hand updates….I guess all I have to say at this point is:
DON”T TASE ME BRO”!
11-14-08
Ok folks, if ya wanna follow the unfoldings of this Federal Lawsuit,
Case # 3:08-CV-00796
go to blog.contrabandhand.com for the blow by blow update blog.....thanks for the interest and support...M
11-03-08 As of today, Sirote & Permutt have filed and sent me 194 pages of legal documents. Now that's a lot of paper. Guess they're not on the "Save a Tree" program ! Stay tuned, more to come I'm sure.
10-29-08 I filed a "Consent" document that the judge had given us at the hearing, which said whether I wanted to keep this judge on the case or have it changed to another judge. I kept him.
10-23-08 Prelim Hearing
Montgomery, Al., Federal Court House, Rm 4b, 3:00pm. I arrived to find three expensive suit wearing attorneys from Sirote & Permutt, Timothy A. Bush, Robert R. Baugh and Stephen R. Geisler. They were accompanied by boxes of documents and Susan Smith from AU, who is in charge of the Trademark Dept. at AU. The judge was Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody. We were there for a hearing on AU's "Motion for Preliminary Injunction". We were in court for three hours. In the end Judge Coody did not make any ruling and did not grant the injunction at the close of that hearing. Lots of interesting things were discovered and discussed including "widgets". More on that later. I did sort of get the impression that the three lawyers did not go to AU. So that's the short story on our first get together.
10-22-08 Received service by certified mail from the Court of AU's original claim and motion for a "preliminary injunction.
10-20-08 This is the original date for the hearing for AU's "Motion for Preliminary Injunction". The hearing was scheduled for 1:30pm. I was at the Federal Court House at 1:30 to be informed that a marshall was on his way to my house to deliver the notice that the hearing had been changed to 10-23-08. Great timing don't you think,since I was standing at the court house ready to go. I was there and Auburn University wasn't. Hummmm
10-17-08 I filed my "Response in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction".
10-15-08
This is when Hilary Funk, a reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser, broke the story of AU suing me.
9-29-08/When AU went legal on me
The power of sixfingers "Free the Hand" An Update As of today, our beloved Alma Mater has filed a Federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for The Middle District, Eastern Division against me, my fun little sixfinger foam hand and this little lemonade stand project of mine. Now this information came to me by U.S. mail from a law firm in Birmingham, AL named Serote & Permutt. It was a big pile of documents for sure. There were 24 very legal and impressive pages of lawsuit and 34 pages of attachments, for a total of 58 pages. That’s about ½ inch thick of taxpayer paid-through Auburn University-coming to get me lawsuit. Actually this stack of legal papers is only a quarter inch short of being as thick as my foam sixfinger hand. Seems they believe that me and my hand are “unfairly competing” with the University and that I’m misleading all of you folks into believing that Auburn University has sponsored and/or endorsed the sixfinger foam hand. Now I don’t know how much taxpayer money has already been spent by Auburn University to have the good folks over at Serote & Permutt prepare this pile of papers and file this lawsuit against me in Federal Court in Montgomery. WOW! and “War Eagle” (well guess I might not should say “WAR EAGLE” in this little note as the University might file another law suit against me)….Stay tuned for the Federal sixfinger foam hand updates….I guess all I have to say at this point is:
DON”T TASE ME BRO”!
Posted by contrabandhand blog at 11/3/2008 6:22 PM 
Categories: Federal Lawsuit update ground zero sort of
Categories: Federal Lawsuit update ground zero sort of
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