Scott Brown sexual harassment lawsuit? Color me....eh....how is this surprising?

[TalkingDog]

http://gawker.com/5489364/the-scandalous-scott-brown-lawsuit-that-no-one-told-you-about

According to Firth's complaint, Brown engaged in "offensive" conduct that caused her to quit his campaign; he then tried to "defame and humiliate" her by spreading rumors to her colleagues that she "had made sexual advances" towards him during his campaign. She also alleged that Brown told several people that he'd had an "intimate relationship" with her and that he had a stack of sexually explicit letters that Firth had sent him. In her suit, Firth says that she'd never been sexually intimate with Brown, nor did she ever send him the aforementioned letters. A 2000 article in the local paper, the Sun Chronicle reported that Brown had denied the charges; for her part, Firth said she felt that filing the suit was "the only way I could stop this."

The case then took a strange turn. Two days after the lawsuit was filed, Jennifer Firth's lawyer, Harvey Schwartz, filed a motion to withdraw as her counsel, saying that "to the best of knowledge, information and belief, the above allegations are not supported by 'good grounds.'" The next day, Jennifer Firth withdrew her suit. It was dismissed with prejudice, which means it can never be re-filed. Brown told a local newspaper that her lawyer had decided to withdraw after he was presented with letters and e-mail messages that proved she'd been harassing Brown. The day after she dropped her suit, Firth claimed she'd done so because "her lawyer told her she was unlikely to win it."

He said/She said? or pressured to drop it?

[Cid_B]

1. Lawyers like to win..

Sounds like he just didn't want any part of it. Sounds to me its like the Brown side said and Firth was looking for a payday.

[Sanity Claws]

3. I agree

That's what I thought when I read her attorney withdrew and no new counsel came forward.

[Control-Z]

5. Lawyers like $$$

I can tell you for a fact that a lawyer will back out of a case to get the bigger, guaranteed money.

I had a law suit. Straight up, no need to lie about anything, collectively 3 months of hospitalizations and 3 back surgeries following an incident. My case first went to arbitration. I won - a large sum of money, though not as much as was expected with a win in the courtroom. Unwilling to pay the money, the corporation I was suing decided to go to trial. Let me add, during arbitration, every single witness from their side lied. Right down to my weight, age, and hair color.

9:00 pm, the night before trial was to begin, my attorney called me to tell me I couldn't win the case - that HE believed their witnesses. I could not believe what I was hearing. He knew I was telling the truth. He knew their witnesses were lying. It was proven during arbitration. We had talked about how good the case was. So what made him suddenly, out of the blue, decide to say he believed their witnesses?

It was a few years later I learned, from their head legal secretary (who no longer worked for them) that it was the company's MO to pay their witnesses. That more than a dozen people had been hurt in the same way as I, and that all had lost their cases. My attorney got paid off by them. It saved them a ton of money, not to mention bad publicity had I won in court. Fact.

[TalkingDog]

6. That is what occurred to me upon reading n/t

[virgogal]

2. Why doesn't it surprise you?

[TalkingDog]

7. 4 words: Pink Leather Hot Pants

The nude magazine spread


Ms. Brown's video debut
http://blogs.nerve.com/scanner/2010/01/22/scott-browns-wife-was-an-80s-video-vixen/

Here you can see her, caressing a man's hand making the "tube" he's holding squirt white stuff everywhere.



They both reek of narcissistic, sexually aggressive, exhibitionist traits. So I'm not surprised Mr. Brown would A) think people find him attractive B) be so self-absorbed that he wouldn't recognize disinterest from someone he found attractive or alternately C) be so self-absorbed that he would not recognize the makings of someone who crosses the line from sexual interest to stalkiness.

He's a political jock. "I'm young, virile and attractive. That means women will be honored to have me force myself on them"

[girl gone mad]

4. Sounds as if he was the one being harassed.

:shrug:

[TalkingDog]

8. At this point: He said/She said stands.

Nobody can prove anything one way or the other. Both acted against their own self interest, which draws their individual motivations into question.