Johnson Development Corporation of Houston Deposes Third Sienna Homeowner Today!

For background on this case click the title link above. --For those keeping track this is the 4th deposition, but the third homeowner/customer of this company being deposed in this SLAPP-suit by Johnson Development Corporaton of Houston (Larry Johnson, Pres.).

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This piece is dedicated to her:

In honor of the third homeowner undergoing deposition today at the hands of John Keville and Johnson Development Co. in their SLAPP-suit (against residents, customers who spoke up against the up to 2700 apartments they're bringing to Sienna Plantation) a deposition joke apparently from Alabama:

This is supposed to be an actual court transcript. -- remember, you found it on the Internet!

To: All Staff Attorneys

Subject: Depositions and Their Use

A friend sent me the following portion of a transcript, which was confirmed with one of the counsel involved (Ms. Olschner) and subsequently posted on Lexis Counsel Connect. The transcript is from Birmingham, Alabama, although the use of a deposition of a party opponent 'for any purpose' is also in the federal rules. We have no word on what had happened immediately prior to this exchange:

The Court: Next witness.

Ms. Olschner: Your Honor, at this time I would like to swat Mr. Buck in the head with his client's deposition.

The Court: You mean read it?

Ms. Olschner: No, sir. I mean to swat him [in] the head with it. Pursuant to Rule 32, I may use the deposition 'for any purpose' and that is the purpose for which I want to use it.

The Court: Well, it does say that.

(Pause.)

The Court: There being no objection, you may proceed.

Ms. Olschner: Thank you, Judge Hanes.

(Whereupon Ms. Olschner swatted Mr. Buck in the head with a deposition.)

Mr. Buck: But Judge...

The Court: Next witness.

Mr. Buck: We object.

The Court: Sustained. Next witness.


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To follow the blow by blow as this case grows see the links below on past & recent court filings:

http://courtcn.co.fort-bend.tx.us:80/pls/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=P&case_id=05-CV-146667&begin_date=&end_date=

http://courtcn.co.fort-bend.tx.us:80/pls/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=P&case_id=05-CV-144185&begin_date=&end_date=


And Johnson Development's past case history since 2000 just here in FB county alone:

http://courtcn.co.fort-bend.tx.us:80/pls/public/ck_public_qry_cpty.cp_personcase_details_idx?backto=P&soundex_ind=&partial_ind=&last_name=&first_name=&middle_name=&begin_date=&end_date=&case_type=&id_code=@3129


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