On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:01:13 GMT, Matt Whiting wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Jim "Captain Zoom" Campbell and ANN entered 2007 with three ongoing lawsuits.
By the end of the year, all were dismissed. Most of the action occurred over
the past five months, and I've held off posting updates since things have been
fluid. It's been a month since the last court order, so the flurry is probably
over.

First, a couple of points. Please realize that I am *not* a lawyer, nor do I
have any legal background (beyond being sued by Mr. Campbell myself, of course
:-).

It still sounds like Zoom has cost several people a fair bit in legal
charges even though the cases were dismissed. That is still very
unfortunate. What did it cost you to defend yourself against Zoom? :-)

IIRC, somewhere between $2 and $5. :-)

(I had to mail Tony some documents)

This makes it far easier to be lighthearted about it, of course. But the sued
companies, win or lose, are out thousands of bucks. Four companies were
actually willing to spend that kind of money to fight Zoom. You wonder how many
others were informed that they owed ANN money because of their "verbal
contracts", and how many just forked over the money figuring it was cheaper than
hiring a lawyer to fight it.

And we must remember, SnF isn't out a dime in legal expenses...but I bet their
insurance premiums went up. Wonder what other fly-ins will fold, because
insurance is too expensive....

Ron Wanttaja