Tag: Sandy Hook lawsuit

Fun and Games at WI Supreme Court: Aren’t we Entitled to Something Better?

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Jim Fetzer [Editor’s note: The WI Supreme Court has reversed itself and accepted my petition for review: which is a most welcome development. Pozner now has 14 days to respond.] My appeal to the WI Supreme Court was submitted on 7 May 2021, entirely in accordance with the requirement that it be submitted within 30 days of the denial it is appealing, which was issued on 7 April 2021). To my astonishment, the WI Supreme Court rejected the application as untimely and sent the records back. (They may want to…

APPEAL BRIEF in the Dane County, WI, Sandy Hook Defamation Lawsuit: Pozner v. Fetzer

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[Editor’s note: This was a classic SLAPP suit masquerading as a defamation. For background, see “Why the Sandy Hook ‘Pozner v. Fetzer’ Lawsuit Matters: What’s Really at Stake” (18 January 2020). For a downloadable copy of the brief, click here. I am profoundly indebted to Richard Bolton, Attorney-at-Law, both literally and figuratively, for representing me post-verdict. Anyone who would like to support our efforts on behalf of the First Amendment is welcome to contribute to James Fetzer Legal Defense Fund, 800 Violet Lane, Oregon, WI 53575. The appeal has been…

Jim Fetzer, Why the Sandy Hook “Pozner v. Fetzer” Lawsuit Matters: What’s Really at Stake

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Jim Fetzer [Editor’s note: The following is the complete text of the DEFENDANT’S RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO RECONSIDER, AND FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER for Case 2018CV003122 in Dane Country Circuit Court as Document 215 Filed 06-14-2019. It was my final brief filed prior to the Oral Hearing on the Summary Judgment Motions in this case, where you can read the transcript and review other basic documents at The Sandy Hook “Pozner v. Fetzer Lawsuit: The Basic Documents. It begins, “Defendant James Fetzer, pro se and in the…

The Sandy Hook Lawsuit Concludes: Even The Yale Daily News Gets It Wrong

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OLIVIA TUCKER 1:10 AM, OCT 31, 2019 CONTRIBUTING REPORTER [Editor’s note: When a reporter for The Yale Daily News reached out to me for a story she was doing for our nation’s oldest college student newspaper, I did my best to walk her through the basic elements of the case, including a 10-15 minute explanation (which she recorded) of the misrepresentations that had occurred in the media in reporting about it, including that we had authored the book rather than editing it and suppressing that there are 13 contributors, including 6…

Eugene Volokh, Attempt to Vanish Posts Critical of the Sandy Hook Hoax Libel Judgment

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EUGENE VOLOKH   A request under the name of Leonard Pozner — the plaintiff in that case — was submitted to Google, asking it to deindex these criticisms (which aren’t themselves covered by the judgment). Lenny Pozner, the father of a boy (Noah Pozner) killed in the Sandy Hook, sued James Fetzer and Mike Palacek, who cowrote (sic) the book “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.” The book had claimed, among other things, that “Noah Pozner’s death certificate is a fake, which we have proven on a dozen or more grounds.” “[Mr.…

The Sandy Hook “Pozner v. Fetzer” Lawsuit: The Basic Documents

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Jim Fetzer The great public interest in this case leads me to make some of the most important documents, from the Complaint to the Oral Hearing to the Order of the Court affirming the Plaintiff’s Summary Judgment Motion and denying mine, even though I had explained that, by Connecticut law, not even parents are allowed to possess uncertified death certificates (as was the case with the copy the Plaintiff made available to Kelley Watt in 2014 and published in Ch. 11 of NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK (2015, 2nd ed.,…

Sandy Hook: Why are there 4 versions of Noah Pozner’s death certificate?

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huntingfororcs Lenny Pozner, father of Noah, a victim of the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, is suing Professor James Fetzer. [Editor’s note: See “The Sandy Hook ‘Pozner v. Fetzer’ Lawsuit for Dummies” for the basic elements of the case.] Central to the lawsuit is Noah Pozner’s death certificate. The lawsuit claims that Fetzer has “defamed” Lenny by asserting in books and his blog that Noah’s death certificate, which Fetzer had received from an individual named Kelley Watt who claims her source to be Lenny himself, is…

The Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Defendant’s Answer to Plaintiff’s Motion to Strike Defendant’s Answer

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Jim Fetzer When I published NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK (2015), with fifteen contributors (including six current or retired Ph.D. college professors), we proved the school had been closed by 2008 and there were no students there. One contributor, Paul Preston, who had run drills for school systems as an administrator in the past, was so bothered by what he observed being reported that he reached out to his contacts in the Obama Department of Education, all of whom told him that it had been a drill, that no children…