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Category: In Your Face

Natalee Holloway has disappeared. Her parents are trying through every legal means at their disposal to determine the facts of the disappearance. It appears that they have filed a civil lawsuit which may permit them to undertake discovery, including depositions. I see nothing frivolous about this effort. If it were my daughter and I learned what the Holloway's have learned since Natalee's disappearance my lawsuit would have been filed long before now.

But, there are those who cannot resist designating one lawsuit or another frivolous. It has become a national sport to be the first to pin the label on a Complaint. I cite one example of frivolous mania below.

Twitty, Holloway Lawsuit Most Likely Going Nowhere we are informed by the Riehl World View.

A lawsuit has apparently been filed lacking any substantive facts, based solely on the single-minded and misguided hyperbole we've been witnessing on Fox News.

None of this goes to whether Joran Van Der Sloot is guilty of any crime, or not. And that's a question I can't claim to answer. But the lack of a charge or conviction in a tragic case does not give anyone the right to harass another individual or family with what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Based on all knowable facts at this time, I suspect any judge or jury would likely conclude that Natalee Holloway could just as easily have fallen victim to an unknown perpetrator on the way back to her hotel, including another Mountain Brook resident, taken her own life as a result of emotional issues complicated by intoxication, died accidentally from drowning, or been murdered by Joran Van Der Sloot.

As I doubt any evidence will point to one scenario over another, it's likely the lawsuit should simply be dismissed.

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Posted by: Bill at February 18, 2006 09:28 PM

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