Comments on: Anti-Vaccine Thug Lawyer Gets Burned By Pro Se Blogger

By: Anti-Vaccine Attorney Clifford Shoemaker His Client Lisa Sykes and Their Expert Mark Geier Claim Conspiracy To Violate Civil Rights By Blogger Kathleen Seidel | Popehat

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:01:52 +0000

[...] her in service of his client, vaccine opponent Lisa Sykes. Previous blogging on the subject here, here, and [...]

By: More On Anti-Vaccine Lawyer Clifford Shoemaker's Subpoena to Kathleen Seidel of Neurodiversity in the Sykes Case, And Similar Tactics By Dr. Mark Greer and David Greer | Popehat

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:34:17 +0000

[...] blog, in apparent retaliation for her blogging about his anti-vaccine case. Seidel's pro se motion to quash Shoemaker's subpoena was granted and Shoemaker was ordered to show caus… an utterly humiliating defeat for [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:06:55 +0000

A comment from Ms. Seidel, on the neurodiversity blog:

Public Citizen made a few phone calls on my behalf, attempting to contact Mr. Shoemaker and solicit local counsel, but hadn’t filed anything yet. Fortunately, it appears that it will not be necessary. Judge Muirhead took action as soon as it was legally permissible for him to do so. I did not have to further argue the matter of sanctions (that is, beyond my minimalist assertion that issuance of the subpoena constituted a sanctionable abuse of judicial authority) for him to recognize that sanctions might be appropriate under the circumstances. (comment 61).

So she did this all by herself, with presumably a little help from the magistrate and the public interest this affair created.

Quite a coup!