French Judge Whacks Armstrong

[B. Lafferty]

******** only goes so far:

Livre accusant Armstrong de dopage: le juge rejette la demande d'encart
lun 21 jui, 3:13 PM



PARIS (AFP) - Le juge des référés a rejeté, lundi à Paris, une demande du
coureur cycliste américain Lance Armstrong d'insérer un encart niant les
accusations de dopage portées contre lui dans un livre paru la semaine
dernière.

L'avocat de l'éditeur (La Martinière) et des auteurs de "LA. Confidentiel,
les secrets de Lance Armstrong" s'est déclaré "très satisfait" par la
décision du juge. Il a notamment souligné que le coureur avait été condamné
à verser aux défendeurs un euro (1,21 dollar) à titre de dommages et
intérêts "pour procédure abusive".

"Le juge a parfaitement compris en condamnant M. Armstrong pour procédure
abusive que l'intéressé avait tenté de répondre par la voie judiciaire à des
questions des journalistes auxquelles il a refusé de répondre", a déclaré Me
Arnault de Montbrial.
Lors de l'audience, vendredi dernier, les avocats de Lance Armstrong avaient
dénoncé un "livre à scandale" qui porte atteinte à l'honneur du coureur.

Le livre est paru mardi derni

 

[Davey Crockett]

"B. Lafferty" <[email protected]> writes:

> ******** only goes so far:
>
As Cardinal Synne said to BishoP rick ``Well back in the good old Medieval
Days when we had two Chief WitchDoktors, we were lucky 'cause although we
got twice as much Papal Bull, we didn't have Iconoclastic Wankers writing
books about our national Heros.''

''But looking on the bright side, maybe we can sell that Armstrong a few
Papal Indulgences or a Dispensation to marry that Magdalene he's consorting
with.''

''Amen to that,'' said BishoP rick, "Qui sine peccatum est vestrum and all
that''

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[Didier A. Depireux]

B. Lafferty <[email protected]> wrote:

Book accusing LA of doping: judge rejects the request for an insert

PARIS: the judge in referee (I don't know what that means) rejected, Monday
in Paris, a request from the cyclist LA to insert denying the doping
accusations leveled against him in a book published last week.

The lawyer for the editor (La Martiniere) and the authors of "LA
Confidential, the secrets of LA" said he was feeling "very happy" about the
decision from the judge. In particular, he pointed out that the cyclist had
to pay the defense the amount of 1 Euro for "Abuse of the judicial process".

"The judge understood perfectly, by fining LA for abuse of process, that he
tried to answer judicially to questions from journalists he had refused to
answer", declared Arnault de Montbrial. During the audience/trial on Friday,
the lawyers of LA had denounced that "scandalous book" which tainted the
honor of the racer.

The book was published on Tuesday last week.

Didier

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[David Off]

Didier A. Depireux wrote:
> fining LA for abuse of process

Just spoke to my wife (who is a French judge btw) and she says this is
most unusual and told me this:

The president of the court (federal district court level) said Armstrong
should have issued two different procedings.

i. an urgent proceding asking for the injunction (which he did)
ii. a defamation proceding setting out in greater detail on which
grounds he was sustaining loss

In the first procedings he wanted a note put in the book saying he had
issued the defamation proceedings, which was not true.

Basically his lawyer seems to have made a bit of a poo.

 

[Bob Schwartz]

David Off <[email protected]> wrote:
> Basically his lawyer seems to have made a bit of a poo.

From what I hear, part of the problem was that LANCE hired an
asswipe that only showed him documents in French and refused
to translate them into English.

Bob Schwartz
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