In a telephone hearing today in the South Carolina Federal Court Magistrate Judge Thomas E Rogers, III made the following rulings after TELEPHONE CONFERENCE with the parties and counsel.

1. Howard K. Stern on behalf of the Estate for Anna Nicole Smith had agreed to the Attorney of Record to Withdraw and the Memorandum for reasons to withdraw be sealed The Court Agreed and Ordered that the reason be sealed and Susan M. Brown’s current attorney can and as of today has withdrawn from the case.

2. Stern offered to give The Brown Law Offices and Susan M. Brown thirty days to seek new counsel. Magistrate Judge Thomas E Rogers, III ruled Brown had only ten (10) days to find new counsel or would represent herself Pro Se.

3. Smith’s Estate had offered a “reasonable period of time for the Brown defendants to have discovery”. Magistrate Judge Thomas E Rogers, III ruled that; “Court will stay scheduling deadlines for a period of 10 days

4. The Estate says the only Motion currently pending before the court is the amount of attorneys fees that Brown and her firm owes for the Contempt proceedings, no ruling on that was made today. L. Lin Wood, Luke Lantta and Nicole Jennings Wade, lead attorneys are optimistic that a mediated settlement is possible but has not happened to date, therefore if necessary the Estate is ready for final Pretrial Motions to be filed and then a jury trial.

April 21, 2011 Anna Nicole Smith's Estate Joint Status Report on Case Against Susan M. Brown Et. Al. (233)
April 14, 2011 Anna Nicole Smith's Local Counsel Request to be Excused from hearing as Lead attorney Luke Lantta will be present for Executor Howard K. Stern (276)

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I have met Mr. L. Lin Wood Jr. briefly in 2009 and I have listened via phone as both Mr. Wood and Mr. Neal McCabe argued Motions in the Harris County Court. However I have never had the privilege of seeing any of these attorneys, L. Lin Wood, Charles “Chip” Babcock, Harry Susman, etc. argue a Motion in person.

For anyone who would like to see L. Lin Wood in a court room this Bryant v. Cox Enterprises video is a must see.

On February 9, 2011 Mr. Wood argued the case of Bryant v. Cox Enterprises in front of the Georgia Appeals Court. The state Court of Appeals’ justices hearing this case is presiding Judge J.D. Smith, who is hearing the case along with Judge Charles B. Mikell and Judge Stephen L. A. Dillard

This case is now the estate of Richard Jewell vs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Following the death of Mr. Jewell the case became titled Bryant v Cox Enterprises. The official plaintiff in this case is now G. Watson Bryant Jr., Jewell’s former attorney, who was designated executor of Jewell’s estate in his will. Cox Enterprises is the owner of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“I have sought justice for Richard Jewell for 14 years,” Wood told the judges.

Jewell was cleared of the Olympic Park bombing that killed one person and injured more than 100. In 2005, Eric Robert Rudolph confessed to the bombing and was sent to prison for life. Richard Jewell has since died of heart problems from a complication of his diabetes.

The estate of Richard Jewell is continuing to press the late security guard’s libel claims against the newspaper. At issue are stories published in July and August 1996 in which the newspaper reported that authorities suspected Jewell of planting the Olympic park bomb and believed he made an anonymous 911 call warning of an impending bombing. Jewell’s estate also is pressing a libel claim over a column by a Journal-Constitution sports writer that drew parallels between the investigations of Jewell and Wayne Williams, a convicted killer long considered the perpetrator of the Atlanta child murders.

Bryan Cave partner L. Lin Wood Jr., who has pursued the lawsuit against the Journal-Constitution since 1997, told the panel of Court of Appeals judges that statements in the newspaper’s articles were simply false. “We now know that Richard Jewell did not plant the bomb,” he said, saying the same was true for allegations about the 911 call. For those of us who did not follow the case of Richard Jewell and the allegations against him, Wood drew a mental picture during his argument of the horrors of that day before the appeals court including playing the audio of the anonymous 911 call and placing the words of the call on a screen. “You have just heard … the voice of someone you know is a cold-blooded killer,” Wood told the judges.

The newspaper filed a motion for summary judgment in December 1998—a motion on which Fulton County State Court Judge John R. Mather did not rule until late 2006. The appellate court had previously ruled that Jewell was a limited public figure, meaning Jewell had to prove that the newspaper acted with actual malice or reckless disregard of the truth.

Squarely at issue in the appeal heard Wednesday was Mather’s grant of summary judgment to the Journal-Constitution on all but one of Jewell’s libel claims in October 2006. Mather, ruled that the Aug. 4, 1996 story could be libelous because by then the Journal-Constitution had learned Jewell could not have made the 911 call and discovered the bomb moments later because of the distance between the two points.

Jewell’s legal team took the unusual step of all but acquiescing to the grant of summary judgment on that claim on the notion that to have the appellate courts consider Mather’s summary judgment rulings now would make multiple trials less likely. Wood’s decision to go all in with the appellate courts, rather than go to trial on Jewell’s claim over the Aug. 4 story, may mean a trial in the case never happens.

On the Aug. 4 Journal-Constitution story, Justice Smith wanted to know more about the column referencing Williams. Peter C. Canfield of Dow Lohnes, the newspaper’s longtime lead attorney on the case told the judges that the column didn’t say Jewell was guilty and the column suggested that investigators searching his mother’s apartment weren’t finding any evidence. Justice Smith asked, “you’re saying Journal-Constitution copy editors—who testified in depositions that they had expressed concern about the column before it ran—had no reason for concern?” Canfield responded that “Their concern was fairness, not falsity.”

On rebuttal, Wood said the copy editors said the column was libelous because of the comparison with Williams. And Wood took umbrage at Canfield’s previous suggestions that Jewell’s side has litigated the case with an eye more to the media and movie deals than having the case resolved on the merits.

If you have not seen the brief video of the Anna Nicole Smith Opera that has sold out all six performances in London at the Royal London Opera and is receiving good reviews I suggest viewing that short video.

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On February 16, 2011 the South Carolina Court issued an Order and Opinion denying Susan M. Brown’s request to dismiss the suit in regards to her personally and her law firm. The court docket shows jury selection is to begin on February 22, 2011 for that case.

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In the South Carolina federal Court the Estate has filed it’s Reply to Susan M. Brown’s Response in which she states L. Lin Wood charges to much!!! I personally think it was reasonable especially if you look at some filings against attorneys in other venues for Sanctions and Contempt. Which then begs to ask, how much is Brown’s time worth and/or billed to clients?

Jury selection is scheduled to began on January 13, 2011 in South Carolina but I just don’t see this going to trial but rather Brown’s insurance paying and getting damage control under way to restore Brown’s reputation.

Bringing up Brown’s reputation, I am sure most of you read in my 2010 deposition in the Texas case where I was told by a representative for Susan M. Brown, that she was going to sue this site and ME for damaging her professional reputation. I have been very hesitant to write anything about Brown following that. Believe me three plus years of being tangled up in lawsuits with people you have never met, is enough for a life time. That said, if Brown is going to put herself out there with having an Order by a Court to Sanction her for Contempt, then do we have an obligation to cover it as we do all things Anna Nicole Smith? I personally don’t believe this site has ever published anything harmful, [unless you consider the truth harmful], to any of the people in this saga of overlapping jurisdictions and lawsuits. We have stated over and over we know NONE of these people, have little to no contact with these people directly and we have learned to ask both sides for comments on the record.

The rule of thumb here is going to be would I cover the lawyers I “like” if they were brought up on Sanctions and for Contempt, the answer is YES, therefore we are going to cover this using the same criteria as we would if it was say, Wood.

Should Susan M. Brown be worried about what a small time blogger has to say about her? Shouldn’t she be more concerned about her career and trying to restore her reputation as an ethical attorney? IF there is a Georgia State Bar Complaint against her we will never know that, but I would bet money with what two federal courts have said about her in Opinions she is being investigated and if not then the State Bar of Georgia has seriously dropped the ball on Brown.

Here are the latest filings in the Anna Nicole Smith Estate through the Executor, Howard K. Stern’s vs. Susan M. Brown, attorney, and others in recovering Estate property.

I think we can see the writing on the wall as soon as L. Lin Wood moved on to other cases and let Luke Lantta and Nicole Jennings Wade finished up this last major lawsuit involving Smith’s Estate .

November 11, 2010 Susan M Brown’s Notice of filing Affidavit as the Court ordered her to do.

November 11, 2010 Susan M. Brown’s Affidavit stating that none of the Estate’s property or any copies are in her procession. It details the actions she took to double check everything.

December 9, 2010 Susan M. Brown’s Response to Howard K . Stern’s bill as the Executor of the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith. Brown complains about how much money the Estate attorneys charged. Brown asks for a 25% reduction on the bill for $14,000+ but then goes on to really ask for a 50% reduction and that is based on what ? That Wood and team are better attorneys then Brown but still does not deserve to be paid for their work on the level of Wood’s abilities for his clients?… Yea that is going to fly, NOT!!!

December 20, 2010, L. Lin Wood’s Reply on behalf of the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith that basically says, oh Really, want to see the emails? Yeppers everyone keeps emails now especially lawyers trying to reach an agreement on anything, even something as simple as filing a joint status report the Court asks for.

With all of this said, I do hope we get to follow some of these attorneys who do defamation suits on high profile cases like L. Lin Wood and Jackson Walker over the years to come, both of them are the tops in the country and usually on opposing sides.

When I mentioned “All things relating to Michael Jackson, to Ken his first statement was “Rose your health can’t handle being pulled into any more legal wrangling”. Yes but we have great guest writers and what is pulling a few legal papers was my response to him. .

We are going to attempt to have someone in the court on January 6, 2011 for the judges ruling on pending motions filed by Steve Sadow and Brad Brunon to reduce the charges or for a new trial and of course for any sentencing the Court imposes on Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and/or Howard K. Stern.

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Once in a great while the veil of attorney’s fees are exposed so everyone can see what the best of the best charges.

We saw that when Jackson and Walker filed for Sanctions against Virgie Arthur in the Texas state Court. We heard it in the transcript of a hearing in that case when L. Lin Wood said his client, Howard K. Stern had a bill of $1,000,000.00, [yes one MILLION dollars], for attorneys fees to fight the two large suits in Houston, Texas Stern became entangled in with Arthur.

In the bill submitted per Court Order in the South Carolina Federal Court of the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith vs. G. Ben Thompson, Ford Shelley and Susan M. Brown Esq., we again have the opportunity to have a look behind the veil of billing by attorneys in high profile cases.

Frankly I am surprise that L. Lin Wood only charges $400.00 an hour, after all he is the best at what he does. NOTE AND CORRECTION: L. Lin Wood’s fee is closer to $815.00 per hour in most cases unless as with this case in which Bryan Cave has a “Hybrid fee basis” contract the fee is almost $1,000 per hour. I stand corrected and that is more in sync with what I thought “he should be paid”. I remember saying during my deposition that I was surrounded by thousand dollar an hour lawyers. I was wrong with that many attorneys and paralegals present I should have said about three thousand dollar an hour lawyers.

This also gives us a clear insight into what one of Wood’s client’s, Richard Jewell, said that he did not get that much money from the settled lawsuits but it was not about money to him it was about clearing his name.

Then there is ALL of the expenses of lawyers like Wood and his entourage of Nicole Jennings Wade and Luke Lantta for traveling, preparing filings, preparing for a hearing or deposition, the time spent at a hearing or deposition and even the transcripts. That plus the percentage, which is usually at least 1/3 of the settlement of a suit but can go as high as 50% of a settlement and then the “expenses incurred” and you see why lawyers walk away with most of the money.

That said, if you were Richard Jewell, John and the late Patsy Ramsey, or Howard K. Stern how much would it be worth to you for L. Lin Wood to restore your good name?

Some of these lawyers have what I call a God complex because of the mega bucks they make, however I never saw that in the depositions and hearings I was part of where Wood also participated. He is a southern gentleman but he also drives a $220k+ car and can be a mean fighting machine on behalf of his clients.

I will be writing a biography on Wood and what his previous clients got in some settlements, was it worth it to them and who is L. Lin Wood. I have done a lot of research and hope you will come back and read that later this week. Yes I will be asking Mr. Wood for a on the record statement about this unauthorized biography and his previous clients feelings about this mega lawyer.

Here are the papers filed by Bryan Cave last week.

November 29, 2010 Anna Nicole Smith Estate Filing for Legal Fees

November 29, 2010 Anna Nicole Smith EstateAffidavit of Louis Nettles in support of legal fees.

November 29, 2010 Anna Nicole Smith Estatebilling statement by Louis Nettles.

November 29, 2010 Anna Nicole Smith EstateAffidavit of L. Lin Wood in support of legal fees.

November 29, 2010 Anna Nicole Smith Estatebilling statement by L. Lin Wood.

What do you think, is L. Lin Wood worth this much?

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I have not read any of these papers yet except for the Orders issued in Texas State Court last week.

SOUTH CAROLINA LATEST FILINGS

August 5, 2010 Susan M. Brown’s Motion to Dismiss her and her law offices for multiple reasons.

August 6, 2010 Order Notifying G. Ben Thompson that the parties need to file a Response to Susan M. Brown’s Motion to Dismiss no later than September 10, 2010.

TEXAS STATE CASE LATEST FILINGS

August 2, 2010 Order Granting TMZ and Harvey Levin’s Motion for Summary Judgment. If Virgie Arthur wants to add TMZ and Levin she can file a Motion for rehearing if new evidence emerges or she can file an Appeal.

August 4, 2010 Order Granting Howard K. Stern’s Motion to Consolidate Rule 11 Contract Case with the Conspiracy to Defame case.

The Texas state defamation and conspiracy to defame case is stayed for discovery, Motions etc. ONLY as to Howard K. Stern for the next 90 days or unless the Court grants Art Harris Motion for Summary Judgment.

August 4, 2010 Order Granting Rose Turner’s Motion to add Busy Street Productions LLC as Designated Third Parties and discovery can go forward relating to audios, videos and alleged hundreds of pages of witness statements being held by officers of the LLC including Carol Martin and Art Harris in relations to the parties and fact witnesses involved in the allegations involving this case.

August 9, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Motion to Quash Deposition by Art Harris and TMZ.com.

August 9, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Notice of Submission for September 17, 2010 at 11:00 AM.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Motion for Final Summary Judgment. The last three pages shows all of the exhibit filed, go through them and let us know which ones you want up first. Harris’ Affidavit will go up in the morning and after that the exhibits in the order y’all ask for. Remember I have a HUGE box of documents and it takes time to scan all of this.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Affidavit to support Harris Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit B 6 filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit BB filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit D filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit J filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit P filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit Q filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2010 Art Harris Exhibit R filed with Harris’ Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 2, 2101 TMZ and Harvey Levin Exhibit B REDACTED filed with their Motion for Final Summary Judgment.

August 10, 2010 Virgie Arthur Drops Art Harris from case in a Non-SUIT Notice to the Court and all parties

August 12, 2010 Virgie Arthur Motion for Leave to Join Busy Street Productions as a defendant.

August 12, 2010 Arthur’s Exhibit B filed with Arthur’s Motion for Leave to Join Busy Street Productions as a defendant. Please note that both Harri’s site and Turner’s site is included in the proposed Sixth Amended Original Petition.

On Friday August 6, 2010 the First Court of Appeals denied Virgie Arthur’s request for a hearing en banc relating to Art Harris. That appeal is now over.

I will put up the massive amount of relevant papers regarding Art Harris Motion for Summary Judgment filed on August 2, 2010, as well as the videos now released in the public records. those filings will be listed in this article throughout today.

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As the California Criminal Trial of Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich looms for August 4, 2010, the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith tightens the noose on four major witnesses.

You have to wonder if this will affect the credibility of Ford Shelley, G. Ben Thompson, Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson as well as attorney Susan Brown. It also appears that Magistrate Judge Thomas E. Rogers III for the South Carolina Federal Court decided to issue this Order without need of a Hearing.

On July 1, 2010 the Court in South Carolina issued an Court Order allowing the addition of Gaither Thompson II, Gina Shelley, Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia. The new defendants have twenty one (21) days to answer the Amended First Complaint so don’t look for this to go to trial before the criminal charges in California is tried to conclusion.

HERE ARE THE HIGH POINTS I FOUND IN THE COURT’S SEVEN (7) PAGE ORDER

“Plaintiff asserts causes of action for conversion, wrongful taking of estate property in violation of California Probate Code § 850, et seq., statutory and common law commercial appropriation of right of publicity in violation of California Civil Code § 3344.1, unjust enrichment/restitution, unfair competition in violation of California Business & Professional Code § 17200, et seq., violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5) and civil conspiracy.

That the Estate’s property has been distributed to other entities including Geraldo Rivera with Fox News, the O’Quinn Law Firm, former television journalist Rita Cosby, and the California Department of Justice.

Counsel for Ford has consented to the filing of the proposed Amended Complaint. See Email from MacDonald to Lantta dated October 28, 2009. Thompson has not filed a Response in opposition the motion. The only opposition comes from proposed new Defendants Brown and the Law Firm. 1 Brown argues that allowing the amendments would be prejudicial to her and would be futile as to the claims against her. Brown does not appear to oppose the addition of Gaither, Melanie and Gina as Defendants in this action or to the addition of factual allegations regarding Ford’s distribution of Estate property to other third-parties.

[Brown] argues that she would be prejudiced due to the fact that she has not had the opportunity to participate in discovery as a party. However, in his Response, Plaintiff asserts that he is not opposed to amending the deadlines in this case to allow Brown to conduct discovery.

Brown argues that, as former counsel in this case, she is immune from the claims Plaintiff seeks to allege. Generally, an attorney is immune from liability to third persons arising from the performance of his or her professional activities as an attorney on behalf of and with the knowledge of his or her client. See Hunt v. Mortgage Electronic Registration, 522 F. Supp.2d 749, 758 (D.S.C. 2007). However, both Thompson and Ford testify that they did not authorize her to distribute Estate property to the O’Quinn Law. Firm.

The Clerk of Court is directed to file the Amended Complaint, which is attached as an exhibit to Plaintiff’s Motion. Plaintiff must serve the Amended Complaint within 15 days of the date of this Order. Defendants must respond in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Ok after reading the First Amended Complaint I see this is the same exhibit filed with the Court in September 2009, so nothing new here; just has not read it in almost a year.

FILINGS ON JULY 1, 2010 WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA COURT.

July 1, 2010 Court Order allowing the First Amended Complaint to include Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1, 2010 First Amended Complaint filed by the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit A filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit B filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit C filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit D filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit E filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit F filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit G filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit H filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

July 1 2010 Exhibit I filed with First Amended Complaint by he Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson and the attorney Susan Brown and her Law Firm in Atlanta Georgia

Summons to Serve on Gina Thompson Shelley, Gaither Ben Thompson II and Melodie Thompson

Summons to Serve on Susan M. Brown and the Law Offices of Susan M. Brown

LATEST FILING IN THE TEXAS CASE I have not had time to read any of these papers.

July 7, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Response to Art Harris Motion to Compel Production.

July 7, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Exhibit A filed with Response to Art Harris Motion to Compel Production.

July 7, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Exhibit B filed with Response to Art Harris Motion to Compel Production.

July 7, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Exhibit C filed with Response to Art Harris Motion to Compel Production.

July 7, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Exhibit D filed with Response to Art Harris Motion to Compel Production.

NEWEST FILINGS IN THE VIRGIE ARTHUR VS. HOWARD K. STERN BREACH OF CONTRACT.

July 1, 2010, Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance to Object to personal jurisdiction.

July 1, 2010 Stern’s Exhibit A filed with Stern’s Special Appearance to Object to personal jurisdiction.

For now we are NOT going to buy these papers due to cost, if it gets traction after the beginning of the Criminal trial or the August 6, 2010 hearing on Stern’s Special Appearance, then we will begin to purchase these papers as well.

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There are more papers due out today, November 30, 2009 in South Carolina from G. Ben Thompson on the Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions based of his previous attorney, Susan M. Brown’s acts allegedly on his behalf.

Gathier Thompson III, Melodie Thompson, Gaither’s wife, and Gina Thompson Shelley all have Responses to the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding them as parties in place of the “Doe” names.

As I read over the papers filed by Susan M. Brown last week I found myself amazed as I always seem to be when it comes to the antics and ever changing lawyers from the South Carolina group of players.

In papers filed last week in the South Carolina Federal Court, Ms. Brown says she was on board with the Horizon’s dispute in the Bahamas from day one in 2006. However it appears if that is true that her clients were not straight up about the happenings in the Bahamas. If Brown’s allegations about her clients prove true in court then they appear to have made sure she missed some memos and certainly some major media news articles. If I remember correctly G. Ben Thompson has dropped all claims to Horizons and is now suing the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith (Dannielynn Birkhead), Howard K. Stern, and the lawyers Tracy Ferguson and Michael Scott. The time line for Ms. Brown being kept in the loop and the liaison between her clients and the attorneys in the Bahamas appear not to include Thompson’s attorney in January 2007, Knowles, at the news conference in the picture with this article and there is certainly nothing from Pro Pinder the current attorney in Brown’s filings. Both were attorneys in the Bahamas for Shelley and Thompson after Ferguson and Scott left the employment of the South Carolina family.

This is either dumber than a suitcase full of rocks on the South Carolina crew for not telling their lawyer everything which equals to tying your legal representatives hands and allowing them to be blindsided by the likes of L. Lin Wood. So did Thompson and Shelley throw their attorney under the bus, and did they wiave the attorney-client privilege in what appears to a free for all for Shelley and Thompson AGAIN!!

My guess from reading these filings is that Brown was not in the loop of the Horizons litigation and the property being distributed, and she is fighting for her legal career and thus like any lawyer who has been betrayed will come out fighting now that it appears that Thompson and Shelley has waived the attorney – client privilege which in my opinion was a dumb move on their part..

Here are the filings on November 24, last week and as soon as the filings come out today they will be added to this article.

SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL COURT FILINGS NOVEMBER 24, 2009.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Memorandum of law filed in S. C. as a Response and Brown’s Opposition of Estate’s Motion for Sanction and Contempt.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2680.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 1 which is the deed filed to put house in Thompson’s name after the law firm withdrew the previous deed signed by Anna Nicole Smith, this is the deed that caused the problems for everyone that is now being sued by each other in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2681.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 2 October 31, 2006 letter from Tracy Ferguson to Anna Nicole Smith to vacate Horizon’s or be prepared for eviction proceedings.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2682.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 3 Default Judgment against Wayne Munroe and Anna Nicole Smith dated November 28, 2006 in regards to Horizon’s in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2683.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 4 Default Injunction that barred Ben Thompson or any representative of his to interfere with Anna Nicole Smith living at Horizons dated November 20, 2006 in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2684.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 5 her affidavit dated November 18, 2009 to file with her memorandum of law responding to Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate filing for contempt and sanctions against her and her law firm.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2685.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 6 which is a copy of the Joint Defense and Confidentiality Agreement with Virgie Arthur filed with Brown’s Response to Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate for Motion for Contempt and sanctions. Brown refers to this in her Memorandum of Law and in her affidavit.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2686.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 8 which is an Affidavit from Neil McCabe on behalf of his client dated November 8, 2009 stating that no person representing his client Virgie Arthur or associated with the law firm made any copies of the hard drives or kept anything from the hard drives and the law firm has respected and kept the common defense and confidentiality in tact at all time.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2687.

I did not put up Exhibit 7 since it is a black and white picture of the hard drives that BDK, Virgie Arthur’s expert in the state suit and we already have a color copy of the same 2 hard drives up in this section and I will link it tomorrow when I do an article on all of this.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 9 which is an affidavit from Teresa Lazzaroni dated Nov. 13, 2009 explaining to the Court how her client Susan M. Brown had kept working copies only of the things contained on 3 flash drives turned over to the Estate attorneys for Anna Nicole Smith and how Brown had paid for her hard drive to be destroyed as requested by Lin Wood during her deposition.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2688.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 10 a copy of the letter from Susan M. Brown to Neil McCabe dated September 25, terminating the Joint Defense and Confidentiality Agreement with Virgie Arthur ONLY on G. Ben Thompson not with Ford Shelley.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2689.

November 24, 2009 Court Order for the South Carolina federal Court allowing Susan M. Brown to withdraw as attorney of record for G. Ben Thompson effective the same date.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2690.

November 24, 2009 Court Order for the South Carolina federal Court issued by agreements of the parties to give G. Ben Thompson time to file a Response to the Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions until November 30 pending against him and for Melodie Thompson, Gaither Thompson III, and Gina Thompson Shelley until November 30 to file their Response to being added as parties.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2691.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Response and Objection to Ms. Brown and her law firm being added to the lawsuit in South Carolina and against the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith filing an Amended Complaint adding her and her firm.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2692.

November 24, 2009 Exhibit 1 which is a letter from Nicole Jennings Wade dated November 29, 2007 verifying that Susan M. Brown did have the hard drives and the only hold up in returning the copies to the Estate was a concern of removal of some of Ford Shelley’s personal files which Ms. Wade assured Ms. Brown the IT department could easily do that once the hard drives were brought to their offices.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2693.

November 24, 2009 Exhibit 2 which is a letter from Nicole Jennings Wade dated September 18, 2008 stating that some of the documents produced by Ford Shelley in response to the Stern – Cosby litigation be returned to their office that Shelley not contact Howard K. Stern again and that they are still waiting for the hard drives to be return so they could meet production requirements for the Estate in the New York pending lawsuit.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2694.

November 24, 2009 Brown Exhibit 4 Copy of Subpoena to Virgie Arthur’s expert BDK dated February 13, 2009 in this case about the hard drives that BDK examined under the Common Defense and Confidentiality between G. Ben Thompson, Ford Shelley and Virgie Arthur.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2695.

I did not put up Exhibit 3 since it is a black and white picture of the hard drives that BDK, Virgie Arthur’s expert in the state suit and we already have a color copy of the same 2 hard drives up in this section and I will link it tomorrow when I do an article on all of this.

©Rose Turner
November 30, 2009
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