Neal (Mad Dog) Johnston Shows Up Martin (Sad Clown) Siegel

Re: Adams v. Poling

Dear Mr. Siegel:

Sometimes the left hand just doesn't know what the right one is doing!

Last Friday, you were no doubt working away at the papers you have promised to serve pretty shortly where you argue that Stephanie Adams is a very private young lady who deserves to have her privacy protected by a judicial order preventing my client and presumably other news agencies from printing any of her answers to any of the interrogatories put to her concerning her threatened law suit against the City of New York. It was my clients coverage of this event which triggered your demand that he take down his postings concerning your client, and which prompted your $100,000 law suit when he ignored your heavy handed attempt at coerced censorship.

Last Friday, your client, in the company of another of her lawyers, was holding a press conference in Brooklyn announcing her $5,000,000 law suit against the City.

The conference received very extensive news coverage over the weekend. Google shows the story picked up by 150 or so newspapers, tv stations, etc. You may be unaware that Ms. Adams has for sometime maintained a web page containing press clips of her many forays into the public arena. She just added a couple dozen news electronic clips to this sizeable page since Friday.

I attach a second set of interrogatories relating to this press conference.

Since they concern a press conference attended by your client relating to the very events discussed in my client's news story involving her, I cannot imagine that there can be any objection on your side to the relevance or appropriateness of any of these inquiries. Since they all relate to your client's news conference, I cannot imagine that you could seriously contend that you client is entitled to ensure that the details of her participation in this event are obscured from the public eye.

I can appreciate the stressful choice Ms. Adams had to make. However deeply she loves her privacy, her retirement from the hurly burly of the world, her ability to shut herself off from the sturm und drang of the modern world, she also clearly loves the glitter, the tinsel, the limelight.

I'm sure you wanted her to lay low, at least until your motion was heard. Alas, she marched to a different drummer. Or, at least, another lawyer. As Robert Burns famously said, The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley."

Sincerely yours,

Neal Johnston

NJ:ig

Enclosure

cc. James Poling