Big Bone Lawsuit

[James Duvall]

 

Press Release - for immediate publication

 

 

Business owner Nancy Blackmore, proprietor of "Jane's Saddlebag" at Big Bone, Ky., has filed a lawsuit in Boone County (KY) Circuit Court against a neighbor, James Duvall.  The suit alleges defamation of character and interference with her ability to earn money.

 

James Duvall, M. A. has retained as his attorney Marcus Carey, Esq., the eminent jurist now running for Kentucky Supreme Court ( http://careyforjustice.com/ ).  Mr. Carey took the case on a contingency basis, stating that there are a number of aspects by which a countersuit can be mounted under the circumstances, but that he would take the case on its first amendment issues, which he regarded as particularly important and interesting.

 

Ms. Blackmore had first threatened to sue the Boone County (KY) Fiscal Court because of the zone chance which was turned down unanimously, but later decided to sue Mr. Duvall when her business, which is a week-end drive-in motorcycle restaurant, began to fail.  She could not be reached for further comment.

 

Mr. Duvall stated that his first amendment rights have been violated by Ms. Blackmore, who moved into the neighborhood only a few years ago, when she began a long campaign against him, lasting nearly two years, including harassment against his wife, his five small children, and himself, because he had spoken against her zone change before the Fiscal Court.  She further violated his free speech rights in deleting, or having deleted, his website and blogs in which he had discussed these issues in a rational and objective manner.

 

"I have never said anything but what I know to be the truth about Nancy Blackmore, or on any of these issues,"  stated Mr. Duvall from his cabin at Big Bone.  "Everything I said was very factually oriented, and this zone change to get a motorcycle bar here was a very bad idea for the community, and eighty residents signed a petition against it, which is very nearly a hundred percent of the population.  If I said (as she alleges in her lawsuit) that she was the neighborhood bully (which I do not admit) she has proved it by her actions in harassing my family and bringing this punitive lawsuit.  Her suit is going nowhere.  She cannot win; she doesn't have a case."

 

Ms. Blackmore's suit was filed by attorney Greg Voss of Union, KY, who is representing her.  Mr. Voss could not be reached for comment.

 

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James Duvall, M. A.
Big Bone University
Nec ossa solum, sed etiam sanguinem.
Big Bone, Kentucky

[James Duvall, M. A.]

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