Christmas 2022 threat by Christine Long:
Shortly before Christmas 2022, Christine Long of Berliner-Cohen threatened to allege a violation of TRO by this writer. The specific wording was as follows:
On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 11:21:17 AM PST,
Long, Christine H. <christine.long@berliner.com> wrote:
...
If the intent is really to part company and for Mr. Kiraly
to leave my client alone then he should have no problem with this
agreement
— when you say he hasn't it [sic] done it in a year
— he has and he is in violation of a court order as we speak
so we aren't going to agree to something less. My client has spent
considerable time and expense on this matter. Our next step is to
bring a motion for violation of the court order.
My attorney asked Ms. Long to state the nature of the alleged violation. She didn't respond. To read more about the context, visit the settlement page.
It's suspected that Ms. Long was thinking of representing old website content as a violation of TRO. The following point may therefore be relevant. Ms. Long made the statement below in writing previously on June 21, 2022:
It also looks like Kiraly added the Fremont fraud story to antiviolencefreespeech.com, which he originally used back in 2015 for another legal issue where someone assaulted him. So long as there is no content on there related to race, ethnicity or private information we have no issue with this.
The content that Ms. Long is referring to, or the part that is still online, presently resides in this website. It's possible that legal escalation by Ms. Long which contradicts the written statement quoted above might raise issues of a legal or conduct nature for that attorney.
Christine Long relies on noise and, in some instances, conscious falsehoods, to accomplish goals that aren't in the best interests of her clients. She's allegedly indicated that settlement isn't a priority for her because dragging things out means “more fees” for the attorneys. Such a perspective might suggest an additional conduct violation or it might be evidence of barratry.
Ms. Long does seem to engage in barratry. This is in addition to, though related to, conduct issues of an unusually casual nature. She doesn't believe that the State Bar will ever comment. However, we all know that it depends on the level of awkwardness involved. Long's conduct might be seen as awkward for her peers.
It would be better if everybody could simply move on.
To clarify the “assaulted” issue for those interested:
On Christmas Eve 2013, I became a transient, though I retained access to my home of 25 years for a few more weeks. I went to Walmart to buy an electric blanket because there was no heat where I'd be going. I stood in line with the blanket surrounded by last-moment Christmas shoppers. It was very cold that night.
I suppose that it was an O.K. Christmas.
My father Jim and brother Tom had sued me to get a gag order related to Jim beating up my mother Grace. They regretted it. However, I lost my home of 25 years due to a year of litigation. Oh, well. One can't have everything.
Freenode people from the early 2010s might remember Strategist aka Tactician or Derek Neely. He was a Fundie of unusual passion. Derek, did you commit suicide? Did you mean in your goodbye that you were headed to prison? Please come back to life. If you do, I'll answer your question. I'm sorry that I didn't.
I'm sorry that I never said things to quite a few people. My uncle Anatol, Twisted Time, Peggy, Strategist, others. Those who are gone can't hear you. I advise those who take others for granted to reflect on this point.
Strategist cared that something had happened to me. I cared, myself, about what happened to others whether or not I was good at showing it. This is unusual for normals. Normals prefer to pretend. To pretend just enough that they can look in the mirror and see a hero standing there.
Strategist asked his God to help me. His God decided to send me to live wih transients.
It was interesting. One transient was a drug addict who liked to bang on doors at 6:00am using metal cookware.
Another transient was a wino who I took to the E.R. one night because his blood alcohol went up and didn't come down.
There was a very odd artist. The artist believed he'd been caught up in a whirlwind decades before, had spoken with God and Lucifer, and had physically visited Heaven. He described Heaven as a place of endless learning.
And there was somebody
who used to work with
Gary Bogue.
That impressed me because I remembered Gary Bogue from decades
before.
The last transient beat me up one day. I suspect that he'd beaten up his wife before this and this was why he was a transient.
I called the police. The others said, “He fell”. It was odd to feel as though I was a 1960s housewife in a cheap Lifetime movie.
The police didn't do anything but take photos of my bruises. The person who'd made the bruises sued me because I'd called the police and had posted online about these events.
The litigation went poorly for that person. I was told later that he regretted his decisions. He died unexpectedly of natural causes. Regret or pride were no longer issues.
The wino decided that he
could “handle” more wine despite damage to his liver
and is believed to be dead as well.
I'd thought that the artist, Charles Artisan, was dead too.
Older transients tend not to last for more than a few years and this one was a decade older than me. He ended up in the hospital and it sounded as though he had a terminal condition. However, we crossed paths in a parking lot at 3:00am one night years later. He talked and seemed to be himself but perhaps there is more than one type of ghost.
One of the Charles's paintings is pasted below. It reminds me of a Galaxy Magazine cover from the 1950s.