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May 31, 2005
TOD v. Larsen Dismissed
By QBlog in TEAM
According to PACER the Team of Destiny lawsuit against Scott Larsen has been dismissed.
» Stipulation and Order of Dismissal without Predjudice (pdf)
Plaintiff Team of Destiny, Inc., by its attorneys, Kuiper Orlebeke PC, and Defendant Scott A. Larsen, by his attorneys, Butzel Long, PC, hereby stipulate and agree that Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint against Defendant shall be dismissed in full, but without prejudice, costs, or attorneys' fees to any party.
Yeah, so I guess the suit is over. Not really sure if anyone won. Looks like Larsen removed his pages about Team of Destiny so I imagine that was a condition of the settlement. Did Orrin Woodward and company give up anything? I guess we'll never know because it looks like the whole thing has been sealed under a bizarre protective order (pdf).
Retroactive Seal?
It appears that Orrin Woodward and company asked for the complaint, and all exhibits, against Larsen to be sealed after they'd been PUBLIC for about a year. You heard right, they filed a complaint, amended it a couple of times, entered exhibits and then asked for the complaint to be sealed. And guess what?!? The judge granted their request!
All the court proceedings were publicly available until May 13, 2005. After that point, they were put under seal. But wait, there's more. The motion for a protective order had two requests.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Place Pleadings Under Seal (Dkt. 55) is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. The Complaint (Dkt. 1), First Amended Complaint (Dkt. 17), and Second Amended Complaint (Attachments to Dkt. 28), and any exhibits attached to any of the complaints shall be placed under seal until December 31, 2011 or further order of this Court. The remainder of the relief included in the proposed order submitted by the parties is denied.
Obviously the documents have been sealed but what about the part that was denied? My guess is that Woodward asked for the authority to pursue those who have copies of the complaints and exhibits and to be given the power to force them to relinquish those copies. Why do I think that? Well, I have copies of the complaint and exhibits posted on my site with links to six separate mirrored copies and nobody's asked me to remove them.
I know what you're thinking. "Isn't sealing documents that are already in the public domain pretty stupid?" The answer is YES! It's absurd. So, they're unavailable at the courthouse (for a small fee) but available for free on the Internet. What's the point? Also, why is Woodward so worried about people reading the complaint that he filed? Doesn't it make you curious? Don't you want to read it now, more than ever?
If you haven't read the complaint yet I encourage you to download it, print it out and read it. It's actually pretty interesting.
» Team of Destiny, Inc. v. Scott A. Larsen (pdf)
Comments
I linked to the case but there are so many pages and it gets bogged down for someone not used to reading that kind of thing. Is there anywhere that king of gives a summary of what the case is/was about.
Laura,
Visit the link to the case on my site. It has a brief synopsis.
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I was reading pacer few days ago and found it was dismissed. But I felt I didn't learn any thing as dismissal could mean any thing. It's mostly the cost issue.
I REALLY don't understand why would Orrin "The Integrity" Woodward want to hide the complaint HE filed. I can understand he wanting to hide suits against him, but WHY hiding his own complaint?
They threatened passport's Ty as well about some general criticism on Quixtar. TEAM is hyperactive on something.
Ok me reading, and publishing what I found funny. ;)
Posted by: Imran Aziz | May 31, 2005 3:19 PM