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To: Scrapps who wrote (21328)	6/20/2001 11:21:16 PM
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Overlawyered gets a lawyering over: Shut Up, She Explained Last month we noted an article in the Detroit Free Press about a Detroit-based seller of "jewelry and trinkets" called Love Your Neighbor, which had sued Love Thy Neighbor, a Florida-based charity for the homeless, claiming that the charity's name is "confusingly similar" to her business's. Now Love Your Neighbor's lawyer, Julie Greenberg of Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, has sent a letter to Robert Dorigo Jones, head of the legal-reform advocacy group Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, who was quoted in the Free Press piece, demanding that he shut up. Overlawyered.com reports: The tone of the letter might reasonably be called menacing coming from a lawyer: it says that for him to have called her lawsuit unnecessary had "caused damage to my personal reputation in the legal and social community". It claims to be "particularly disturbed" that Mr. Dorigo Jones would presume to comment on her suit even though he is not an expert in trademark law; "indeed, you are not even an attorney". And it proceeds to the following bottom-line demand: "In an effort to curb potential ongoing damage to my reputation from your quote in the Free Press, I request that you retract your statement made, and further that you take all references to me or this lawsuit from your [M-LAW's] website, or your affiliated website Overlawyered.com, which is promoted and hyperlinked by your website. I look forward to your prompt response." Overlawyered notes that it isn't in fact affiliated with M-LAW. In any case, Dorigo Jones was merely expressing an opinion, which is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Maybe Julie Greenberg needs a remedial course in constitutional law opinionjournal.com overlawyered.com Haven't checked overlawyered.com out yet but sounds interesting.