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Anna Nicole Smith

List of new documents in all cases concerning ANS and new discussion thread.

October 7, 2009 CBS Unredacted Documents in the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books in contracts with Howard K. Stern and the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2502.

October 6, 2009 Virgie Arthur – Rose Turner Submission to the Court for the Agreed expanded hard drive search criteria that were accidentally omitted from the original Agreed Motion.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2503.

October 7, 2009 CBS Notion of Submission of the Motion for Summary Judgment filed last week, this is set for submission only for October 26, 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2504.

October 7, 2009 Art Harris Unopposed Motion to the First Court of Appeals asking for an extra week to Reply to Party of Real Interest Virgie Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Writ of Mandamus, the oral argument was moved by the First Court of Appeals earlier today by their on rescheduling from October 13 to October 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM with both sides still have 15 minutes each.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2505.

LATEST FILINGS FROM NEW YORK ARE THE UNREDACTED DOCUMENTS BY RITA COSBY, SOME TO YOU “MAY APPEAR” TO BE MISSING THEY ARE NOT, THE ACCIDENTALLY FILED EXCEPTS OF LARRY BIRKHEAD, POL’ ATTEU, PATRIK SIMPSON AND HOWARD K. STERN HAVE ALREADY BEEN LOADED FOR YOU AS WELL AS WHAT “APPEARS” IN THIS TO BE MISSING EXHIBITS, THERE ARE A LOT MORE TO GO THROUGH TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ALL OF THEM NOW. WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR HACHETTE’S UNREDACTED FILINGS TO BE FILED WITH THE FEDERAL SOUTHERN DISCTRICT COURT OF NEW YORK.

October 8, 2009 Rita Cosby’s UNREDACTED Memorandum of Law originally filed redacted with her Motion for Summary Judgment on December 15, 2008.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2514.

October 8, 2009 Rita Cosby’s UNREDACTED Rule 56.1 Statement of Facts of this lawsuit as she sees them, originally filed redacted with her Motion for Summary Judgment on December 15, 2008.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2515.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s UNREDACTED Declaration of Exhibits Filed with the original Motion for Summary Judgment on December 15, 2008.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2516.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit D a small excerpt of the Unredacted deposition of Wilma Vicedomine.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2509.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit E a small excerpt of the Unredacted deposition of Mark Speer.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2518.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit G a small excerpt of the Unredacted deposition of Jack Harding.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2510.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit H a small excerpt of the Unredacted deposition of Bruce Littlefield.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2511.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit J emails between Tracy Ferguson and Howard K. Stern about conflict of interest and accusing Stern of asking her to commit perjury.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2512.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit O statement by Ford Shelley to the Royal Bahamian police following Daniel Smith’s death dated December 19, 2006 AFTER the dispute for Horizons was in the press.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2513.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit P partial statement by Howard K. Stern to the Royal Bahamian police following Daniel Smith’s death dated September 10, 2006.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2517.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit U which contains 15 pages of the CBS contracts made by Howard K. Stern for the different interviews and coverage including the personal contract on February 10, 2007 for himself and the contract for the funeral rights to go into a trust account for Dannielynn.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2506.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit V which contains the Splash contracts made by Howard K. Stern for Estate of Anna Nicole Smith for the funeral rights to go into a trust account for Dannielynn.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2507.

October 8, 2009 Elizabeth McNamara’s Unredacted Rita Cosby Exhibit W which includes the Contract with Getty images including the email between Howard K. Stern and a representative of Getty about doing an interview if the Commitment Ceremony pictures would sell for more.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2508.

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October 9, 2009
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Rita Cosby reduced to just another paparazzi

Here is the first group of filings unsealed in the New York Federal Court for the Southern District as Ordered by the Honorable Denny Chin.

These are the filings unsealed by Howard K. Stern, the filings by Rita Cosby and Hachette Books Ordered to be Unsealed have not appeared yet. As soon as they do we will have those as well which will be parts of depositions we don’t have this go around from Stern.

I have not read through these yet but wanted to get them all listed for you and then we will discuss and do articles on these documents as we go back through the debunking of the book to the lead up of the Jury Trial scheduled to begin on November 30, 2009, let the games begin!!!!

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern Unredacted Response Summary Judgment part 1 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2448.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern Unredacted Response Summary Judgment part 2 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2449.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern’s Unredacted Rule 56-1 Statement of Facts part 1 of 3 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2451.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern’s Unredacted Rule 56-1 Statement of Facts part 2 of 3 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2452.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern’s Unredacted Rule 56-1 Statement of Facts part 3 of 3 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2453.

September 28, 2009 Lin Wood’s Unredacted Declarations of Exhibits and Depositions filed with the list of Unredacted documents.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2454.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern Unredacted Declaration dated February 5, 2009 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2465.

September 28, 2009 Howard K. Stern’s complete Unredacted two days of depositions filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2450.

September 28, 2009 Rita Cosby’s complete Unredacted two different days of depositions filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment. This is part 1.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2445.

September 28, 2009 Rita Cosby’s complete Unredacted two different days of depositions filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment. This is part 2.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2446.

September 28, 2009 Rita Cosby’s complete Unredacted two different days of depositions filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment. This is part 3.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2447.

September 28, 2009 Bea Stern partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2469.

September 28, 2009 Don Clark partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2471.

September 28, 2009 Don Clark partial Unredacted deposition from the Florida Case filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2472.

September 28, 2009 Wilma Vicedomine’s partial Unredacted deposition with exhibits filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2484.

September 28, 2009 Jack Harding partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2474.

September 28, 2009 Mark Speer partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2478.

September 28, 2009 Ray Martino’s partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2479.

September 28, 2009 Virgie Arthur’s partial Unredacted deposition by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2483.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 4 Copy of emails from Jackie Hatten to Howard K. Stern and Anna Nicole Smith from September 2006 regarding Daniel’s death filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2458.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 6 Emails between Howard K. Stern and the attorney  Tracy Ferguson regarding the transferring of the Title back to G. Ben Thompson without notifying Anna Nicole Smith in regards to Horizons in the Bahamas by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2460.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 8 emails from Melanie Thompson whose father is a Cardiologist about what she thinks might have happened in Daniel Smith’s death Bahamas filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2462.

Employees of Hachette Books and Rita Cosby’s Co-Author

September 28, 2009 Bruce Littlefield with exhibits partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2477.

September 28, 2009 Amy Einhorn partial Unredacted deposition with exhibits filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment. She was an employee of Hachette Books.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2455.

September 28, 2009 Dan Wakeford partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2470.

September 28, 2009 Evan Boorstyn partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2473.

September 28, 2009 Jamie Raab partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2475.

September 28, 2009 Leslie Pockell partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2476.

September 28, 2009 Mitchell Hoffman partial Unredacted deposition with exhibits filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment. He was an employee of Hachette Books.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2480.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 31 Unredacted book notes and emails with notes in the margins of the book filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2466.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 32 Unredacted book notes and emails with notes in the margins of the book filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2467.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 33 Book promotion Notes and potential jacket covers with lead ins about the book filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2468.

Depositions leaked before this filing:

September 28, 2009 Larry Birkhead partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2444.

September 28, 2009 Patrik Simpson’s partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2481.

September 28, 2009 Pol’Attue’s partial Unredacted deposition filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2482.

Documents we have read before:

September 28, 2009 Copy of the Filing of Anna Nicole Smith’s Will from California showing Howard K. Stern as the Executor filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2456.

September 28, 2009 Stern Exhibit 16 Copy of partial Filing of Anna Nicole Smith’s Burial Proceeding hearing from Florida involving Ron Rale filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2457.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s Exhibit 5 Deed Information and value of Horizon’s in the Bahamas at the time Anna Nicole Smith bought it filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2459.

September 28, 2009 Stern’s exhibit 7 a Copy of the TRO against G. Ben Thompson and the Electric Company in regards to the house called Horizons in the Bahamas filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2461.

September 28, 2009 Stern Copy of Marshall Bankruptcy Litigation from Lexus Nexus filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2463.

September 28, 2009 Stern Copy of Marshall Bankruptcy Litigation from Lexus Nexus part 2 filed by Lin Wood in the compliance with the Court’s Order to file Unredacted records used to decided Summary Judgment.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2464.

NEWEST PAPERS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA CASE BOTH OF G. BEN THOMPSON’S LAWYERS FILE MOTIONS TO WITHDRAW AS HIS COUNSEL.

September 28, 2009 G. Ben Thompson’s lead attorney in South Carolina Lead lawyer, R. Scott Joyce, filed a Motion to Withdraw as Thompson’s attorney and asked for an “In Camera” hearing at the earliest possible date for the judge. In camera does NOT mean Ex Parte, I believe it means just closed to the public but it could mean without Stern’s lawyer if there is some possible ethics or criminal charges looming.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2485.

September 30, 2009 G. Ben Thompson’s attorney from Georgia, Susan M. Brown, filed a Motion to Withdraw as Thompson’s attorney and asked for an “In Camera” hearing at the earliest possible date for the judge. In camera does NOT mean Ex Parte, I believe it means just closed to the public but it could mean without Stern’s lawyer if there is some possible ethics or criminal charges looming. This occurred less than a week after Brown’s deposition and Order to turn over exhibits had to be completed by Brown.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2486.

©Rose Turner
September 29, 2009
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Bonnie Dumanis and co-founder of San Diego Justice Foundation Inc.

Per the AP and other news sources, on Friday, September 11, the San Diego District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis said that there was insufficient evidence to charge Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman after an incident in which the reality TV star Tila Tequila accused him of choking her and throwing her to the ground early Sunday as she tried to leave his house.

Charger player Merriman was arrested after Tequila signed a citizen’s arrest warrant accusing Merriman of battery and false imprisonment. Both are felonies. That would not have bode well for Merriman or the San Diego Charges, since he is a star starting player and the team is again eying the Super Bowl this year

The district attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, decided not to charge Merriman after her office spent three days reviewing reports from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. D. A., Dumanis, said there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Merriman committed a crime. Do What??? Is this female D. A. Dumanis, not sympathetic towards domestive violence or does this ring of reelection and you don’t need the San Diego Chargers not supporting you. As we have seen with much less it appears to date, A. G. Brown has taken the Howard K. Stern case to a Preliminary hearing, skipped the grand jury altogether. Is this not enough to at least release the police reports and was Tequila arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct? You would think that would be the case if Merriman thought she was to intoxicated to leave his home. Let’s hope the San Diego D. A., Bonnie Dumanis, released the police report and what she used to make this statement of the “This case is now closed”, I would not be taking that bet. You take a walk through the TMZ gallery of 16 photos and tell us what you think motivated this D. A.’s decision.

Dumanis’s announcement was released just in time for the NFL kick off on Sunday, September 13. “This case is now closed,” Dumanis said in a statement.

Previously Shawne Merriman had said that he was trying to prevent Nguyen from driving because she appeared to be intoxicated. Tequila is currently said to be weighing her civil lawsuit options.

Add to the above that we have been sent an enormous amount of papers to weigh through that has taken folks like our good source, with a watch dog group working on these papers and talking to people for over a year. What caught our attention was the allegations that this is a non-profit foundation, which California AG Jerry Brown is over (remember the lucrative Michael Jackson foundation for children’s charities about to be initiated). AG Brown regulates these foundations and of course California it appears, if the rumors of the Michael Jackson upcoming non-profit foundation is true about paying AG Brown’s office a percentage to oversea all of these non-profit foundations. If that is true then this foundation like others is going to add money to the broke state via that percentage paid to AG Brown for overseeing non-profit groups. The first question about this foundation, The San Diego Justice Foundation, Inc. is does it also contributes a tad of money to California for overseeing i?

However, The San Diego Courts Foundation, Now the San Diego Justice Foundation, Inc., is incorporated with only elective officials such as San Diego’s district attorney, Bonnie Dumanis on the board and listed as a founding member. Then you have that this Foundation uses the address of the San Diego Superior Court as the official address in papers filed with the California Secretary of State.

This particular foundation appears to be cloaked in secrecy. Our source alleges that money from clients goes through lawyers who then make donations to this foundation and the case then ends favorably for that person.

Is Rose Speaks.com the only one that sees a potential huge conflict here?

Add to that is the Tom Bednarek and Rita Cosby connections with the emails sent to us and this foundation has caught our interest. Why would Bednarek using his access via A. G. Jerry Brown’s personal cell phone, hurt the “Stern”, [Howard K. Stern and two doctors], case and Cosby did not want that to happen. That begs the question of why would this be a conflict of interest for Bednarek but more importantly Cosby?

We are going to do some more digging where our source and her watch dog group left off. We are going to follow where this trail leads us with an upcoming year of elections and those all too coveted political donations.

Our source alleges that money goes from clients to attorneys to this foundation and suddenly that client gets a favorable outcome on their legal case. Say What??? What if some of that money is used to help elect politicians say A. G. Brown’s desire to run for California Governor in 2010. WE ARE NOT SAYING THAT “YET”, there is a LOT more digging to do in any determination, but it does have our attention of where will the let’s connect the dots lead us. We are fortunate to have a lot of papers to go through and emails from and to Tom Bednarek.

Why don’t we all do some digging folks it could be our civic duty at the start of another campaign season, remember our saying, let Google be your friend.

Here is the first paper we are putting up on this subject but look for more in the coming days as we go through who is who, why, and potential huge conflicts of politicians in California and ya’ll said Texas was bad.

September 9, 2009, we have been sent the non-profit corporation papers of The San Diego Courts Foundation; however the questions are who contributes to this foundation and which elected officials benefit from those donations.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2410.

©Rose Turner
September 14, 2009
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Rita Cosby reduced to just another paparazzi

We also have Rita Cosby’s Reply to the Response Howard K. Stern filed in regards to Cosby’s Motion for the Court to Reconsider it’s ruling. The pretrial hearing for this case is still set for Friday September 11 at 12 noon.

September 8, 2009 Rita Cosby’s Reply to Howard K. Stern’s Response to her Motion to Reconsider Summary Judgment on number 1 and 2 of the court’s previous decision.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2406.

We have a number of papers that were filed Friday in the Texas Court of Appeals, didn’t I predict the Texas case would be won in the Appellate Court and not the trial court? There is one housekeeping Motion from Teresa Stephens asking the Court of Appeals to dismiss a duplicate filing in that court.

We have the August 28, 2009 transcript hearing in the State District 280th Court Harris County Texas of Art Harris Motion to Reconsider the appointment of Craig Ball as the Special Master and independent forensic expert for the court in this case. I found it interesting reading and will point to some of the high points in my opinion. We have it broke down for ease of downloading into three parts

August 28, 2009 transcript hearing in the State District 280th Court Harris County Texas

August 28, 2009 Hearing Transcript part 1 of 3 in the Texas District 280th Court Harris County Texas of the Motion for Reconsideration appointment of Special Master Craig Ball.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2407.

August 28, 2009 Hearing Transcript part 2 of 3 in the Texas District 280th Court Harris County Texas of the Motion for Reconsideration appointment of Special Master Craig Ball.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2408.

August 28, 2009 Hearing Transcript part 3 of 3 in the Texas District 280th Court Harris County Texas of the Motion for Reconsideration appointment of Special Master Craig Ball.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2409.

September 8, 2009 Virgie Arthur’s Response to Howard K. Stern’s Supplemental Briefing to the Court on Appeals about the recent Texas Supreme Court Decision In RE. To Weekley.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2404.

September 8, 2009 Virgie Arthur’s Response to Art Harris’ Motion for Emergency Temporary Relief and Injunction to Stay all proceedings of the Special Master Craig Ball and not to have to answer those 11 pesky question by this Friday, September 11, 2009 but only for him, let the “games” continue for his co-defendants.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2402.

September 8, 2009 Virgie Arthur’s Tab A-K filed with her Response to Art Harris’ Motion for Emergency Temporary Relief and Injunction to Stay all proceedings of the Special Master Craig Ball and not to have to answer those 11 pesky question by this Friday, September 11, 2009 but only for him, let the “games” continue for his co-defendants.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2403.

September 8, 2009 Teresa Stephens filed a Motion to Dismiss the duplicate filing with the Texas Appeals Court with no objection from any of the parties.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2405.

September 9, 2009 Filed by Art Harris with the Court of Appeals is his Reply to Virgie Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Request for an Emergency Order to Stay proceedings in the Texas 280th District Court and that he not have to answer those 11 questions.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2411.

I have simplified the eleven questions Craig Ball asked for Art Harris to answer, and the hard ware (hard drives, laptops, jump drives etc.) are already listed in the previous article. My question AGAIN is why file a $6k-15k appeal when answering the questions would be easy and so much more cost efficient. Remember most appeals before a final judgment are denied, that said I think Howard K. Stern has the best chance of winning because he is a lawyer, and their computers should be off limits in my opinion.

Reading the transcript today of the August 28, 2009 hearing other then not removing Craig Ball as the Court’s Special Master and independent forensic specialist, Art Harris’ lawyers got everything they asked for and the judge was prepared this time. I found it funny how she wanted NO part of the inches of exhibits many filed before in her Court, she did want to read just the Motions pending before her on August 28, and she used the judges jacket (think cliff notes in college) to refresh her memory about this case all the way back to why she appointed Craig Ball. She was not asleep during that hearing however McCabe made it clear he felt that with the number of attorneys there representing Harris, McCabe felt that the August 28th hearing was a “walk through” to establish the record for an appeal.

It will take a bit to get the transcript scanned and up for all of you but Ken is working on it.

Here again without imaginary answers if the eleven questions for Art Harris:

1. Respecting any of the media holding data subject to the Court’s examination orders, can you please advise what course of action was agreed upon between Mr. Harris and Mr. Jeffrey Lee in any late night call on December 11 or in the early hours of December 12, 2008? This is the call sought by an e-mail from Mr. Harris titled, “got a minute to talk off record?” on or about 8:56 PM on December 11.

2. After many hours of painstaking review of the data, I stand by my focus on December 16, 2008 as a significant date respecting the Dell laptop hard drive furnished to me for examination. The system registry indicates that the date the replacement 160 GB Western Digital drive is first seen by the Dell laptop is December 16, 2008 at 20:35 (UTC). Is it your client’s position that there was no installation or re-imaging of a hard drive on December 16, 2008, and that any seeming indication of same resulted instead from, e.g., someone’s installation of XP Service Pack 3 on the machine on December 16? Or do you or Mr. Harris have another explanation to share please?

3. Would I be correct in concluding that, on Christmas Day 2008, two weeks after the Court’s 12/11/08 orders from the bench, Mr. Harris (purchased for $39.90), installed and ran an application called RegCure (along with another application called “Privacy Controls”) for the purpose of cleaning the system registry on the Dell laptop?

4. Would it be accurate to state that, on January 11, 2009, Mr. Harris personally deleted some 7,000 e-mails from his deleted items folder? If so, were copies of all of these deleted e-mails somehow retained and otherwise furnished to me? Please identify the 7,000 deleted mails, perhaps by an MD5 hash value or by simply furnishing them to me for cross-correlation (a PST, MSG or EML format will suffice).

5. Would it be accurate to state that on April Fools Day 2008, Mr. Harris obtained a Zip file containing a software program called CCleaner from Duane Derrick and that Mr. Harris personally unzipped, installed and ran the program on both his Dell laptop (installed 4/1/09) and on his Dell Dimension desktop (installed 4/2/09)?

6. Would it be accurate and fair for me to characterize CCleaner in this manner: “CCleaner allows the user to remove unused temporary files from Internet browsers and other supported applications along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, and AutoComplete form history. It allows for the cleaning of the recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, and various other data.” This is taken from Wikipedia.

7. Would it be fair and accurate to characterize CCleaner as an “antiforensic” tool when used in the manner described above, in anticipation of a forensic examination?

8. Would it be accurate to state that Mr. Harris consulted with Jeffrey Lee about CCleaner before running CCleaner and clearly understood that it was a “system cleaner” application?

9. Because on April 1, 2009, Mr. Harris twice inquires of Mr. Lee about erasing history from his computers, may I fairly conclude that the erasures of same I see on the machines occurred as a direct result of Mr. Harris acting intentionally to effect such erasures?

10. Would it be correct to state that Mr. Harris paid Carceron Systems Group to “clean” and “defrag” his Dell Dimension desktop on April 13, 2009 and paid Carceron to “clean out” temporary files and file caches on May 1, 2009?

11. Would it be correct to state that, on May 8, 2008, Mr. Jeffrey Lee deleted the contents of Mr. Harris’ deleted items folder and that Mr. Harris thought this was “Great!!!” and thanked Mr. Lee?

Again reading through these it seems simple and to the point, so why not have Jeffrey Lee and Art Harris just answer and do an Affidavit if it came to that for the court. It could be just answering the questions will put the whole dilemma and subsequent Motions, Responses and Hearing to bed so to say.

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Rita Cosby's pillow talk with Bednarek

As we wait for the papers, or at least the Order unsealing the papers in New York, a solid source contacted me about all of this, a source who had contacted one of the people facing a Preliminary hearing legal team and whom they felt was very rude to this person.

This sounds like the old song for some reason “Leroy Brown”, dunno why it just does.

As we await all of the papers today, why would Tom Bednarek not want anyone to know he had the “ear” of AG Jerry Brown? It could not possibly have to do with Rita Cosby?

Why did Bednarek tell this source from 2005 to the spring of 2009, I can help and did in fact help? Why would Rita Cosby need Bednarek to call in a “favor” from his old at least has the ear of “AG soon to be gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown? Why would helping this source/friend with Brown hurt the Howard K. Stern prosecution?

Why tell someone you had been working with that as this source said to Bednarek in an email, “I told him that you know Attorney General Jerry Brown so you may get a phone call.” In another email just two months before the indictments this source wrote to Bednarek, “I want to thank you for helping, [name omitted], by contacting Attorney General Jerry Brown.” Why in an email did he request this source to always refer to Rita Cosby as “R” saying, “Would appreciate it if from now on… in all of our correspondence…? THAT we only refer to one another ONLY as K and T… AND my gal as R… Okay?! This IS very important…” In another email Tom Bednarek said in part, “Again, should you ever want to discuss this with me, we can certainly do so, so long as it is CAREFUL HANDLED over the TELEPHONE.” In yet another email about offering help he stated; “Additionally, other than “Tom” … there will be no need to include my name within any letter you enclose. He will be aware of the package…”

In another email about the pillow talk while Rita Cosby was fast hammering out her future best selling book and shopping it around why did Tom Bednarek wanted to brag about his closeness to Cosby and exactly how close that pillow talk is as he states; “Although she is heavily committed on a number of major initiatives at this time, she is always very interested to learn more about a story such as this… I know… we’ve been together for well over seven years now, and I know her heart. She would be a phenominal ally to have, BUT I can tell you first hand… that she is extremely engaged right now… and has a number of prior works she is deeply involved with. On the other hand … she is an amazing “multi-tasker!!! HA! But seriously, as mentioned, I will see what either she can do to help AND get this into the right hands for you.”

Finally just less than two WEEKS after the indictment of Stern Bednarek called this source and said “I can’t help you with AG Jerry Brown, and please don’t contact me again”. Following that was the last email exchange of four years of working together on ONE project with Bednarek and Cosby:

“Hello Tomaczek, It’s sad you decided not to keep in touch with me after you told me you would send the documents I sent you … to Jerry Brown. It’s been 8 months since …I’m asking you again to send the information I sent you and Rita …to Jerry Brown. I remember you telling me that you had a direct phone number for him. I can’t understand how you think sending this information could hurt the Stern case. You reasoning just doesn’t make sense to me. Thank you,”

Yea Tom why would helping with the ear of “feel good AG Jerry Brown” hurt the pending Stern case? Did you use up all of your “favors” keeping “R” or Rita Cosby as most of us know and call her by out of the deep fat frying pan? Why did you and Cosby want to make sure the indictment was announced before the Summary Judgment was ruled on in New York? How long had you been sharing pillow talk with “R”, [Rita Cosby], with AG Jerry Brown?

All good questions I think, what about ya’ll? My source has snail mailed me a ton of information on this project that we will begin to explore in the new year in greater detail right before the gubernatorial candidates, including Brown, began their major fund raising? By the way the “project” that is discussed with promises to help by Tom Bednarek is about a non-profit foundation of which there are allegation of “money for favors”, isn’t Brown in charge of those? Could AG Jerry Brown’s friend Bednarek with over four years of documentation sink feel good Brown’s bid for that brass ring called the governorship? A brass ring that Brown wants so badly in what some say is a hope for the blissfulness and power he once held as the prince and the rising star in the Democratic Party way, way back in the 70’s as a young “cool feel good” Brown.

I have told my source to print out the hard copies of all of the documentation and send them to me, put them in a bank vault and at least in two other people’s hands so Bednarek cannot undo the damage to his beloved “R”, known to us as Rita Cosby.

Tom, Tom, Tom, you tried so hard to not leave much of a paper trail in all of this, but in trying it rings of nanny gate in my ears.

We will be bringing you more of what this source has to say, including the way they were treated by one of the legal teams of one of the people facing the preliminary hearings in October of this year.

Now for today, we await the Court’s Order releasing the papers, could “exhibit J” be Bednarek deposition about nanny gate? Who knows only the unsealing of all of these promising delicious documents will tell us.

To keep up with the papers to be unsealed keep this list handy, and remember ALL of Howard K. Stern’s deposition and all of Rita Cosby’s deposition is included in the documents. I don’t know about all of you but I await the release with excitement that a lot of the pieces will begin to make more sense and like a haze in the morning light will become the bright sun of daylight and the telling of all of those secrets, including pillow talk of nanny gate.

We will be linking the below list with documents as those doucuments are released by Court Order.

The list filed under seal by Elizabeth A. McNamara, the second filing on Dec. 19, 2009 by Elizabeth A McNamara is identical to this one for Rita Cosby Dec. 15, 2008:
Her declaration starts right off with “redacted”.

Partial depositions:
Exhibit A Larry Birkhead (we have)
Exhibit B Patrik Simpson (we have)
Exhibit C Pol’ Atteu (we have)
Exhibit D Wilma Vicedomine (we don’t have)
Exhibit E Mark Speer (we don’t have yet)
Exhibit F Howard K. Stern (we have)
Exhibit G Jack Harding (we don’t have)
Exhibit H. Bruce Littlefield (we don’t have yet)
Exhibit I Rusty Hardin’s filing in the Florida case (we have)
Exhibit J even the name is redacted.
Exhibit K Larry Birkhead’s declarations in family court in California. (we don’t have)
Exhibit L Lori Payne (we have and she flaunted it on Geraldo)
Exhibit M and N affidavits by Ben Thompson (we have but will not put up for Dannielynn’s right to privacy)
Exhibit O Ford Shelly statement to Royal Bahamas Police (we have)
Exhibit P Howard K. Stern’s statement to Royal Bahamas Police (we have the first page)
Exhibit Q all of the transcript of the Florida proceedings (most of us probably have)
Exhibit R PEJ Report on Stern’s Affidavit in the Inquest (redacted and we don’t have)
Exhibit S Debra Opri’s original filing in California against Birkhead (we have)
Exhibit T Howard K. Stern’s petition from Florida suing O’Quinn (we have)
Exhibits U and V media contracts for Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern (redacted)
Exhibit X (one page from the great big beautiful doll (filed under seal for copyright reasons, however we have a copy)
Exhibit Y and Z media coverage on Anna Nicole Smith marrying J. Howard Marshall (we have)
Exhibits AA and BB is media coverage of Larry Birkhead (we have)
Exhibit CC tabloid media coverage pointing to Stern being involved in Daniel Smith death (we have)
Exhibits DD, EE and FF Jack Harding’s coverage in media (we have)
Exhibits DD the whole thing is redacted (we don’t’ have)
Exhibit HH media coverage of the Britney Spears defamation claim (we have)

The list filed under seal by Debra Neumann Hachette Books Dec. 15, 2008

Exhibit A excerpts deposition Evan Boorstyn (we don’t have)
Exhibit B excerpts deposition Leslie Pockell (we don’t have)
Exhibit C excerpts deposition Jamie Raab
Exhibit D excerpts deposition Howard K. Stern

The list filed under seal with Amy Einhorn’s declaration dated Dec. 15, 2008

Exhibit B of Amy Einhorn is a copy of the book proposal
Exhibit C copy of contract with Rita Cosby

The list filed under seal by L. Lin Wood for Howard K. Stern February 12, 2009

Exhibit 1 deposition Howard K. Stern dated Sept. 15 and 16 2008 (full deposition, 3 days worth)
Exhibit 2 deposition Rita Cosby Nov. 15, 2007 (full deposition 3 days worth)
Exhibit 3 deposition Rita Cosby Sep. 22-23 and 26 2008 with exhibits 4, 5, 8, 9, 29
Exhibit 4 excerpts of Larry Birkhead July 22, 2008
Exhibit 5 excerpts of Bruce Littlefield, dated July 29, 2009 with exhibit 13
Exhibit 6 excerpts of Raymond Martino dated Sept. 2, 2009
Exhibit 7 excerpts Pol’ Atteu dated May 28, 2009
Exhibit 8 excerpts Patrik Simpson dated May 27, 2008
Exhibit 9 excerpts Don Clark dated Oct. 14, 2008
Exhibit 10 pages of Don Clark deposition from Florida (we have)
Exhibit 11 excerpts of Wilma Vicedomine dated Oct. 13, 2008 exhibits 6 and 7
Exhibit 12 excerpts of Amy Einhorn dated Sept. 9, 2008 Exhibits 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 12
Exhibit 13 excerpts of Mitchell Hoffman dated Sept. 10, 2008 exhibits 22, 27 and 27
Exhibit 14 excerpts Les Pockell dated Oct. 7, 2008
Exhibit 15 excerpts Evan Boorstyn dated Oct. 7, 2008
Exhibit 16 excerpts Jamie Raab dated Oct. 7, 2008
Exhibit 17 excerpts Dan Wakeford dated Dec. 15, 2007
Exhibit 18 excerpts Mark Speer dated Oct. 23, 2008
Exhibit 19 excerpts Jack Harding dated Feb. 21, 2008
Exhibit 20 excerpts Broncha Stern dated Sept 3, 2008
Exhibit 21 excerpts Virgie Arthur from Houston case dated Oct. 28, 2008
Exhibit 22 Declaration Howard K. Stern Feb. 5, 2009 partially filed under seal
Exhibit 29 notes by Rita Cosby
Exhibits 31, 32, 33, and 34 all filed under seal

The list filed under seal by Debra Neumann for Hachette Books March 13, 2009

Exhibit A excerpts Amy Einhorn dated Sept. 9, 2008
Exhibit B excerpts Mitchell D. Hoffman dated Sept. 10, 2008

The list filed under seal by Elizabeth McNamara for Rita Cosby March 13, 2009

Exhibit 1 excerpts Raymond Martino
Exhibit 2 excerpts Don Clark
Exhibit 3 complete deposition Wilma Vicedomine
Exhibit 4 excerpts Mark Speer
Exhibit 5 excerpts Jack Harding
Exhibit 6 excerpts Larry Birkhead
Exhibit 7 excerpts Pol’ Atteu
Exhibit 8 excerpts Patrik Simpson
Exhibit 10 email between Birkhead and ANS dated Sept. 22, 2006
Exhibit 11 email between Stella Lockhard to Stern attorney Krista Barth dated April 13, 2007
Exhibit 12 updated document by Rita Cosby
Exhibit 14 excerpts book by Cyril H. Wecht published Jan. 6, 2009 (should have been filed under seal we have removed them from the web site.)
Exhibit 15 Big Beautiful Doll filed under seal

LATEST FILINGS BY RITA COSBY IN THE NEW YORK CASE ON SEX TAPE AND ORAL SEX AT A PARTY WITH JACKIE HATTEN STILL NO WHERE TO BE FOUND

August 18, 2009 Rita Cosby’s Notice to the Southern District Federal Court before Judge Chin that she is filing a Memorandum of Law of reconsideration of the sex tape and the “party” where missing Jackie Hatten “says” she saw Birkhead and Stern having oral sex.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2353.

August 18, 2009 Rita Cosby Memorandum of Law Support Reconsideration to the Southern District Federal Court before Judge Chin that she is filing a Memorandum of Law of reconsideration of the sex tape and the “party” where missing Jackie Hatten “says” she saw Birkhead and Stern having oral sex.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2354.

Latest paperwork in Texas State Case

August 11, 2009 Court Order passing on the County attorney’s office filing a “boilerplate” Motion without the facts the court needs on one of the parties filing of an indigence Affidavit.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2352.

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Rita Cosby just another Paparazzi

After getting several google alerts about the “Amicus Brief”, I begin to look at the “gay news” on the internet and saw the confusion even the gay community had, many saying this was contrary to what they had fought for and it would make more sense if Lambda Legal had issued a brief in support of Howard K. Stern. So beginning to research I found that Lambda Legal with their Brief that was done on behalf of Rita Cosby, March 13, may perhaps be more friends with some of the defendants in this suit and not a neutral party and friend of the court.

I am also going to go back in time and then addressed Lambda’s seemingly confusing Brief.

In 1964 in Dallas Texas I had a friend who came out as gay. All he wanted was to live his life openly; my parents encouraged me to stand by him. It was a valuable lesson to use later in life any time I came up against or into the arena of bigotry and discrimination. This young man was disowned by his family, committed to mental hospitals and had a horrible 15 years before he broke from all of the past and just started living for him. This had happened to him for no reason then as a teen he had an idealist view that the world in Texas would accept him for who he was, WRONG!!

Then we fast forward to 1984, twenty years later, and I am assigned to the corporate head quarters in Seattle Washington. One of my first days going into Seattle, parking and walking a couple of blocks to our office building I noticed two very good looking men, with expensive suits, brief cases in hands, fine executives on their way to work. They stopped at a street corner in front of me, kissed each other good day and then turned and walked in opposite directions. I picked my jaw up and realized I was not in Texas any more.

Then we fast forward to 1998, another fifteen years and asked who can ever forget Matthew Shepard? “Matthew Wayne Shepard was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and subsequently murdered near Laramie, Wyoming. He was attacked on the night of October 6–October 7, 1998 and died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, from severe head injuries. Then you have West Boro Baptist Church of Topeka KS. who wants to put up a plague saying Mathew Shepard entered hell on October 12, 1998. This is the same set of loons that appear at every military funeral they can attend to exercise their first amendment rights by having signs and taunting of the families saying that the soldiers in the two wars we are in today are dying because our society accepting gays, thus God is punishing our nation.

This goes along with Bush cleansing of the military from 2000 forward of all gays, with the don’t ask, don’t tell, left in the dirt so to say. That cost us as a nation at least 40 linguist all train in the dialects of the very countries we were at war with. These linguists were the first “responders” so to say for the military in listening and translating chatter. They were dismissed from the military for no reason other than they were gay.

So how far have we come in the GLBT world of equal rights and acceptance with the rest of us?

We now fast forward to 2009 and Rita Cosby’s stance that it is OK to be called Gay, even if it is not true. What a crock and why is one of the oldest GLBT organizations buying into this and supporting Cosby’s potential slanderous statements, in my opinion, they do reach to the level of libel Pro Se.

Let’s look at the latest news in the gay community for some insight here as to just how ok it is to be called gay but also to be falsely called gay.

1. “A judge has reduced by 10 years the sentence of one of two men convicted in the 2005 slaying of an openly gay man in Montrose”. That seems fairly recent, and it would appear that being called gay for this man even though true, caused his death.

2. “On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, a Newport Beach, Calif., police officer was awarded $1.2 million by an Orange County jury who believed his claim that he was denied promotions partly because of false rumors that he is gay”. Part of the claim was based on the “proof presented” that “former police Chief Bob McDonell never promoted anyone perceived to be gay”. As Dr. Phil would say, how does that work for ya, Rita?

3. “Gays again sidelined at NYC St. Patty’s Day Parade. There was no wearin’ of the pink once again in this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade down Fifth Avenue. For 18 years the Ancient Order of Hibernians which organizes the parade has barred Irish gay groups from marching”. On case you didn’t notice that would be in Cosby’s hometown just 2 days ago.

4. “Threefold Rise in Gay Bashings in Santa Clara County. A surge in anti-gay hate crimes has been reported in Santa Clara County for 2008, representing a three-fold increase over 2007. Both LGBT activists and the Assistant District Attorney for the county attribute the rise to the ubiquity of gay marriage news, and warring propaganda on both sides of the Prop 8 debate which occupied lawns, lampposts and headlines throughout the year.”

This all seems like it is fairly up to date information on the woes of the gay community and the continued discrimination they receive even this week in New York City. Which leads to the big question of why did Lambda Legal appear to do a 180 degree turn to support Cosby’s claims to be falsely accused of being gay today is OK?

I remember when Patrik Simpson called me all giggly and told me that when asked about their meeting with Elizabeth McNamara, Rita Cosby and McNamara’s assistant in New York during the spring of 2008, that he thought he accidentally outed Ms. McNamara at his deposition. He felt this was because he spoke openly about that Ms. McNamara with her significant other was raising a child together as was Pol’ Atteu and Patrik. He went on to say most of the meeting had to do with sharing that between twp openly gay men with a lesbian. WOW, food for thought.

However, I doubt that is true, because the firm that Ms. McNamara is a partner in, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, has a very open diversity program of both granting scholarships and internships to openly GLBT students. They also proclaim their proud diversity of hiring within the GLBT community. GREAT for, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP they are definitely setting the right tone to address the bigotry and discrimination of the GLBT community. They open their arms they openly state that are a law firm of proud diversity, we need much more of that.

Now back to the “friend of the court” brief filed by Lambda Legal, in your opinion should they have given the court as part of their brief a disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest? You see in Seattle one of the attorneys for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP donates his time to Lambda Legal. If you look at the major supporters financially of Lambda Legal there sits prominently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Finally we have the whispered allegations that both Rita Cosby and Tom Bednarek are gay and for appearance sake have live together as roommates. These allegations are supported by Larry Birkhead’s sworn Declaration filed with Howard K. Stern’s Response. If this is allegedly true and proves to be in fact true, is Cosby not herself living proof that being openly gay in some lines of work is not OK? I know of an anchor for one of the largest cable news networks has also a lot of whispers that he is gay. No one asks, he never offers anything, but obviously with all of his power and viewership for some reason to come out as openly gay in the world of broadcast this man does not view as a smart career move.

In the end what are your thoughts? Lambda Legal did not ask for permission to file this brief in February when Howard K. Stern filed his Response to Cosby and Hachette’s Motions for Summary Judgment. They waited until Cosby’s Reply was due. In your opinion could someone have allegedly picked up a phone and said, “Hey we need a favor”, and if that did in fact happen should not Lambda Legal and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP make a full disclosure of a possible conflict of interest? Would this not help the gay community online news, understand a tad better why Lambda Legal appears to have done a 180 degrees on this brief?

Check our the links to the news stories form 1998 to present and then tell us if in your community to be called gay or “fag” based on allegedly false rumors is OK? My opinion, as the titles says it ALL it is not OK to be called Gay, today in our society as sad as that might be.

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Rita Cosby, reduced to just another paparazzi

In the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books, on December 11, 2008, there was a letter addressed to Judge Denny Chin from Elizabeth A. McNamara requesting the Court for permission to file Motion for Summary Judgment for Rita Cosby and Hachette Books under seal. The Court DENIED the request to file the papers under seal “except that the parties may file a set of papers publicly, with confidential exhibits omitted and references to any confidential matters redacted, with a second complete and unredacted set that will be filed under sealed”.

Looks like the New York Court is going to allow us to see publicly some of the information that Cosby and Hachette is attempting to show in the Motions for Summary Judgment due to the Court by December 15.

What do you think we will be allowed to see and gleam for the filings due on Monday? Debunking chapter 13 will be up this weekend, lot’s to discuss in this case as well as several others we are following.

Remember that ALL documents filed in this case are in our download section, opened to ALL not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

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December 13, 2008
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