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ELB wrote:

TXBO wrote: ..
I don't know any of the particulars. It's reasonable, however, to assume that when you get reprimanded by the court and you have to pay defendant's attorney fees for bringing a frivolous case, you may have gotten bad counsel. I see no lack of morality in exploring that.

The particulars are that these types of lawsuits are frivolous both as a matter of logic and statute, and there are several cases on record affirming this. In the face of this they embraced their "bad counsel" and in fact signed up with their counsels employers as employees, and sought to use their "victim status" to damage innocent parties. They simply chose to roll the dice and see if they could get a judge who will ignore the plain meaning of law (not a bad bet these days!) and maybe force a payment from the defendants to make the plaintiffs go away (which the plaintiffs would trumpet as a political victory). I see no morality in that.

They may have a legal case, and I hope the brady bunch does burn up their time and energy pointing fingers at each other over this, but just like their complaint against Luck Gunner et al, they have no moral basis to complain about their lawyers. This was not a case of an aggrieved party whose independent lawyers had no goal but their client's best interest: these were political allies waging political lawfare, and their battle blew up in their faces.

ELB wrote:

TXBO wrote:The family may have a case against the attorneys for giving such bad advice.

Maybe legally but not morally. The parents allied themselves with the Brady bunch, and even became employees. I don't know if the lawyers are employees of Brady or outside counsel, perhaps that would make a difference in a claim for malpractice. Realistically, I don't see how either the parents or Brady could claim to be surprised by the suit being thrown out -- there is a history of these type of suits being squashed. This was a blatantly political effort to use the legal system to damage law-abiding companies, exactly the thing the PLCAA was enacted to prevent.

But it would amuse me to see the all those on the Brady side tie itself up in knots suing each other...