Tomorrow, March 20th 2009, there are a few things happening in the ongoing lawsuits that Howard K. Stern is involved in.
In Los Angeles, where I can not get documents from by the way, there is a hearing in Howard K. Stern vs Mark Speer. Speer was a body guard who helped Larry Birkhead, father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn, with security. Stern is accusing Speer of libeling him by statements that appeared in Rita Cosby’s book Blond Ambition. Stern is suing Cosby for the book as well.
Attorneys for Stern filed the lawsuit against Speer and Jackie Hatten who was a friend of Anna Nicole Smith’s, the night before Speer was to give a deposition in Stern vs Rita Cosby.
I believe the hearing tomorrow concerns Speer asking for the case to be dismissed under Anti-Slapp laws.
Speer is employed by a private military and protective security company Jax Desmond Worldwide. They released a statement after Howard K. Stern was arrested for felony drug charges related to the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Jax Desmond is offering physical protection at “cost” to anyone associated to cases involving Stern. Services will be decided on a case by case basis.
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Also tomorrow, in Houston Texas, the State lawsuit of Arthur vs Stern et al has a hearing scheduled. Although Neil McCabe, attorney for Virgie Arthur filed a motion to cancel the hearing due to a bankruptcy filing by one of the defendants and attorneys for another defendant, Art Harris filed a motion for continuance, neither motion was addressed by the court. According to a clerk in the 280th district court in Harris County, the hearing will go forward.
Another defendant, Bonnie Stern the one who filed bankruptcy is not required to appear because of that filing but attorneys for Howard K. Stern and Harris are expected to be present.
McCabe says the issue tomorrow will be “personal jurisdiction in Texas over non-resident defendants who have filed special appearances to contest jurisdiction”. He said that even though Stern lost a jurisdictional battle in a now dismissed related Texas Federal case, that ruling will not control in the present case, which involve different allegations.
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If anyone missed the interview on Scared Monkeys Radio last night about the arrests of Howard K. Stern and Doctors Kapoor and Eroshevich, the website, scaredmonkeys.com archives their shows and you can listen to it by clicking on “play now” on this link.
The thing that struck me about that interview which featured Pathologist Dr Cyril Wecht, Author Dawna Kaufman and Former FBI Special Agent Don Clark, was Dr. Wecht’s demeanor which was remarkably similarity to Dr Perpers on last Saturdays Geraldo show.
Both men are coroners/pathologists. Both men are accused in the court of public opinion of botching autopsy’s. Perper on Anna Nicole Smith because he relied on someone for important information who had a personal interest in the finding of “accidental death”. That person, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich has now been indicted for felony drug charges related to Anna Nicole’s death.
Wecht who did Daniel Smith’s autopsy and charged over $40,000 for it repeatedly gushes in the press that Daniel (a non abuser) died from a lethal “cocktail” of drugs. In fact, Daniel died from a suspicious massive overdose of methadone which was not prescribed to him. To date, no one has been able to adequately explain how or where Daniel could have came upon this drug.
Both Wecht and Perper have reputations at stake here (ah hem..where have we heard that before). Wecht who had been previously indicted on almost 100 felony counts of public corruption charges, later reduced to 14 emitted an eerie high pitched screaming sound just like Perper did on Geraldo as he defended his autopsy findings, defended Stern and also bashed and trashed Anna Nicoles mother Virgie Arthur. Amazing, since Wecht as a so called professional, has no personal knowledge of Mrs. Arthur and admitting his information came from “what he has read”. With all the trouble he is in, that is one person who has a lot of nerve mouthing off…
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Lets get this over and won for Virgie Arthur and also Stern in his jail cell. I love this site. It has the most information that comes out about the Anna sage and all the lawsuits. Thank you QV for the site and all the time it takes.
“What Anonymous” said !!!
Great write up QV !!!! I cant imagen how hard it is to compose an article with the updates & not riddle the entire thing with colorful opinions *haha* I commend you for all the hard work you put into this site.
Who would have thought we would all be ‘here’ for this long .. I just hope (as the rest) that Lady Justice is warming up her legal swing of JUSTICE and hold those accountable for these vicious crimes !!!
Thankfully she has some added help in the out field !!! **McCabe&Clark&O’Quinn&Arthur&etc**
Take Care MeMe
Jane banned me once again.
Good for her, I proclaim!!!
Gosh, she’s like the best moderator…and knows it, I think.
Or, at least I hope so.
I lasted about 3 days in limbo…just reading.
Reminds me of bad habits…yet is it true that Jane still smokes?
Reminds me of mirrors.
Anyway, she’s one tough cookie.
Now, then…what’s this new ‘thread’ ‘all about’…
Someone trying to ‘cook a goose?’
Oh, yeah…
“Hey, Hey For The Monkeys”
By the way, dear QV, I did notice that ‘the ghost’ of Anna is back.
Nice shot, too and wonder if Larry took it.
Eventually I’ll get to read Jane again, I’m sure.
That’s for another day set ‘as an aside’ for purely aesthetic, or entertainment purposes.
I’m just typing and thinking as I do.
And I’m a monkey that doesn’t do, or agree with, necessarily what I see, hear, smell or taste…
Sometimes I just like to have fun and waste time reading and commenting on blogs.
Wow Jax Desomond is offering “witness protection” that says a lot to me!
Thanks for all the updated information QV. Maybe we’ll get something from the doc fairy sometime today.
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