Update March 12, Lynne Spears filed her opening brief and avoided a judge dismissing her appeal based on missing the deadline.
Update March 1, Monday: A representative for the Second District of the Court of Appeals says Lynne Spears has 15 days to respond or a default judgment will be entered and the appeal dismissed. Spears’previously sought and was granted an extension of time to file in early December. Her notice of appeal was lodged in mid August.
Update Feb. 28 evening Sam Lutfi’s counsel is the one asking to be relieved, not Lynne Spears, based on court docs now in possession. Lutfi’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, cites “a break down in the attorney-client relationship such that counsel is no longer able to effectively represent the client.” The next hearing is set for March 8 at the Los Angeles Superior Court before Judge Zaven V. Sinanian for a status conference set previous to the court of appeals’decision.
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The 2nd Court of Appeals in Los Angeles notified Lynne Spears on Feb. 26 that her challenge of a lower court’s ruling involving Sam Lutif has been dismissed according to online court records.
Records say her lawyers did not file her opening brief in time. Court records also indicate that Spears’counsel filed on Feb. 3 to be relieved. I will try to get more information this week.
Spears lost her motion to dismiss Sam Lutfi’s case against her last year due to a ruling by a judge that Lutfi had made enough of his case to continue being heard. Lutfi claims libel, defamation, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract.
View the appellate court’s decision.
Hi Carmela:
I know you wanted to feature the updates to this post to demonstrate you are on the top of the issue (which is good!). But in this particular case, having the updates at the top of the post was distracting instead of helpful. I had scroll down to read the original post and then back up to the updates to understand what was going on. I think it would have worked better to place the updates underneath the original post in order, or created new short posts to feature the information.
But it’s excellent that you are being dilligent about staying on top of these issues.
Thanks,
Le Templar
Puma Press blogging adviser
Le, thank you.
Judy said just the opposite on another blog entry that I updated. I’ll talk to her today.
What’s interesting about “these issues” is no one is covering them save the occasional wire by City News Service in California. Lynne is a prominent person by virtue of be a superstar’s mother. Sam is a person of interest who infrequently appears in celebrity news.
If he is able to move forward with his case there will undoubtedly an action to get everyone on the stand including Britney, Jamie and Lynne. There have been battles before in other court cases involving Britney to get her to testify.
So on the surface dismissing Lynne’s appeal is probably “no news” but knowing the case history it could be huge. I believe that to date the conservatorship has relied on a ruling from Feb. 2008 that Britney lacked the capacity to retain a lawyer or to meaningfully participate in hearings: but she was ordered by the court to appear on Jan. 22, 2010. I’ve been slow to publish what I know about that which is much more than it was a rare appearance; that it lasted a few hours and that it was buried and trivialized by the media as some to get from the commissioner’s permission to donate a dress to Haiti.
I appreciate your professional feedback. Next time I’ll put the updates at the end.
Dear CK, –’libel, defamation, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract.’These key words at the lead of the article, would further illustrate the appeal to first-time readers. Truely a tantilizing post. Also, I liked the format, contrary to a long discussion with JG I had this very evening on this very subject, so it is still fresh in my mind. I would hope to write to your standard sometime soon.–NJK
LOL, NK. Thank you. Neither of our columns is easy to write. I would get lost in your own world of ‘intrigue.’