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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: VVLF Update: Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit |
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So much for one of the Kerry surrogate bogus lawsuits.
Congratulations to Carlton Sherwood, the VVLF, Newsmax and their legal team for their successful defense and to all who contributed their support.
| Quote: | Update: Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit
On March 28, 2006, Jon Bjornson discontinued his lawsuit against Carlton Sherwood, Red White & Blue Productions, the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, and NewsMax. The suits filed by Kenneth Campbell continue, as does the VVLF's defamation and conspiracy lawsuit against John Kerry and Anthony Podesta. |
As a refresher...
| Quote: | John Kerry Surrogates File New Lawsuits Against Vietnam POWs and Carlton Sherwood
Jon Bjornson, M.D. v. Carlton Sherwood and Red, White and Blue Productions, Inc., Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation and NewsMax
Another former member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War has brought a lawsuit claiming that he was libeled by Carlton Sherwood's documentary Stolen Honor. In a complaint filed August 25, 2005, nearly a year after Stolen Honor was released, a man named Jon Bjornson alleges that Stolen Honor implied he was a "fraud and a liar" who made up stories of atrocities by US soldiers in Vietnam in order to deceive the American people. Bjornson's name was never mentioned in Stolen Honor.
Represented by the same counsel representing Kenneth Campbell in his defamation lawsuit against Carlton Sherwood, Bjornson has sued not only Sherwood but also the VVLF and its board of directors. Four members of the VVLF's board are veterans who served more than five years each as POWs in North Vietnamese prisons. The VVLF did not yet exist when Stolen Honor was put together and released.
Like Kenneth Campbell, whose suit against the VVLF and Carlton Sherwood is described below, Bjornson testified at the Winter Soldier Investigation in 1971. John Kerry relied on Bjornson's and others' accounts of war crimes and atrocities when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that war crimes were authorized "at every level of command."
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JN173
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: VVLF Update: Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | So much for one of the Kerry surrogate bogus lawsuits.
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and their legal team for their successful defense and to all who contributed their support.
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2 down and 2 ( VVLF and Carlton Sherwood vs. John Kerry and Anthony Podesta plus Kenneth Campbell vs Carlton Sherwood and Red, White and Blue Productions, Inc.) to go.
They still need our financial suport to bat 1000.
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rhv5862
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: VVLF Update Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit |
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| Thats great news. The last two suits will go the same way, and hopefully expose Kerry for what he really is. |
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gmez2001
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: VVLF Update Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit |
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| rhv5862 wrote: | | Thats great news. The last two suits will go the same way, and hopefully expose Kerry for what he really is. |
Just Great,my contribution money at work and well-spent.
Talk about investing--best investment ever........... 
IMMA digging down deep again
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: VVLF Update Jon Bjornson Drops Lawsuit |
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| rhv5862 wrote: | | Thats great news. The last two suits will go the same way, and hopefully expose Kerry for what he really is. |
I'm not as confident that will be the case. We are now down to dueling lawsuits, the one initiated by Campbell and the one subsequently initiated by Carlton Sherwood and the VVLF. Nor am I quite sure that I would want the Sherwood/VVLF case to be dropped as the prospect of discovery and likely deposition of Kerry seems plausible.
As JN173 pointed out above, this is the second lawsuit against Sherwood that has been dismissed...is a trend developing here? I wonder why?
| Quote: | George Butler, Swift Boat Film, LLC and Winter Film v. Sinclair Broadcasting, Red, White and Blue Productions, Carlton Sherwood and John Doe 1-62.
On October 21, 2004, a copyright infringement lawsuit was filed in New York City by George Butler and others claiming that they owned the copyrights to the documentary films "Winter Soldier" and "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" and other photos used in Stolen Honor.
Plaintiffs alleged that defendant Sherwood was infringing those copyrights by using portions of the films and other photos in Stolen Honor, and that Sinclair Publications would also infringe on the copyrights if it showed Stolen Honor on its television stations around the country. The plaintiffs sought an injunction that would preclude the defendants from using excerpts of any of these works in any manner, including by showing Stolen Honor on the Sinclair television stations. The plaintiffs also sought unspecified damages and attorneys fees, including the disgorgement of any and all profits realized from Stolen Honor.
This lawsuit was dismissed on November 23, 2005.
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