Stupid Lawsuit Against KISS' Gene Simmons Hurts Lawyers Image
Trial lawyers hate seeing headlines like this. Judge Allows Lawsuit Against KISS' Simmons. Let’s check out the details. During a ‘rockumentary’ retrospective of 30 years of KISS, we learned the following:
[Gene] Simmons says during the show, "There wasn't a girl that was off limits, and I enjoyed every one of them," Ward's court papers say.
At another point Simmons says, "I was a 24-hour whore. All I ever thought about was sex." This, court papers say, was shown and followed by a photo of Ward with Simmons.
Ward's papers say that because a photo of her with Simmons — though her name is never mentioned — was shown during remarks about his sexual adventures, she was in effect portrayed as "wild" and "unchaste."
Hmmm…..let’s see. In the 70’s, she was dating Gene Simmons the lead singer for KISS. Check. VH-1 shows a vintage picture of her from the 70’s when her and the lead singer of KISS were dating. Check. Gene Simmons says he was a wild child and a very bad boy. Check. Check. That doesn’t seem to be lawsuit material, that seems to me to be a very big Duh. I would have sent the plaintiff packing and wouldn’t have even spent five minutes talking to her.
When cases like this come around, trial lawyers wince. It hurts the legal profession. It makes it harder for people that were hurt and have actual injuries to recover. A lot of these cases are filed by the litigants themselves or by public interest lawyers and not trial lawyers. So, I did a little bit of searching on the lawyer and I’m surprised by the results.
While Martha is not a member of ATLA, she’s a graduate of Yale and Georgetown Law School.and works for Morelli Ratner, which appears to be a solid plaintiff’s firm with 12 attorneys and the founding partner Benedict Morelli looks like he has quite a background as a trial lawyer.
Hmmm…. It sounds more like a shakedown than a lawsuit to me. (However, it is possible that the article has the facts wrong and there’s somehow more to the story than they’re telling).
Benedict Morelli is a hustler and a shakedown artist extraordinaire. He took Bill O'Reilly and Fox to school in the blackmail department.
He started his career smashing up yellow cabs with a hammer to increase the property damage claims on cheap PI cases.
It's great that he stuck it to OReilly, but he is the epitome of a stupid, crook of a trial lawyer that would be hard pressed to spell his own name.
MI,
I don't know about the accuracy about any of those claims, but it doesn't seem like there's anything more than a 'Get over it'. moment here.
She dated a rock star in the 70's. They ran a retrospective on him, showing a picture of him while they were dating.
Maybe, that's why I'm at the beach instead of the go-go city of New York.
But I don't think I personally know any lawyer that would take that case (if you can even call it that). That's the type of things that gives lawyers bad names.
