
Here come the fighting words!
Jon Gosselin must be pretty pissed that TLC is intending to sue him for his ATV all he’s got, so he put his lawyer, Mark Heller, right to work in making TLC look like the reasonable vicious, evil company they are!
Mark took to the Internet bloggers-sphere to file his complaint with the company that apparently has yet to serve them with legal papers. He and Jon had to read about the news on the Internet. (First of all, pot meet kettle. Second, if you have Jon in hiding, it’s kind of hard for the company to serve him papers. Yeah, we know that trick – don’t try and fool us.)
Anyway, here is Marks LONG statement about the lawsuit at hand and what he and Jon plan to do about it:
“Apparently, TLC has elected to initially litigate this case in the Court of Public Opinion, rather than the Circuit Court for Montgomery County Maryland because neither Jon nor I have been served with legal pleadings or informed by TLC of the instant litigation.
Remarkably, instead, I read the alleged Complaint on the internet, since it would appear that Discovery and TLC chose to pander and publicize their weak, feeble and baseless claim to the media rather than providing the Defendant with appropriate notice through the traditional judicial process.
Jon will vigorously defend against this baseless action, assuming Discovery and TLC choose to go forward with their claim by legally serving him with notice, and we are confident that through the course of litigation it will clearly be evident that Discovery and TLC exploited, manipulated and abused the Gosselins’ vulnerability and financial hardship.
We believe that the contract will be unenforceable in light of the fact that Discovery and TLC initially had Jon execute a complicated, complex and sophisticated agreement at a time when he had no legal representative. In any event, when TLC and Discovery ended the program Jon & Kate plus eight they also effectively terminated the purported contract and accordingly, any rights or obligations they perceived existed concerning Jon’s conduct or actions, rights or privileges from that point forward were also terminated.
The contract was against Public Policy because we believe Discovery and TLC violated Pennsylvania Child Labor Laws, failed to seek appropriate State and Municipal Permits, failed to pay the Gosselins fair consideration, and intentionally circumvented their responsibility to specifically designate legal and lawful compensation to the eight infant children, which is now the subject of an investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and could result in summary Criminal Proceedings.
The purported Contract was also grossly overreaching and restrictive attempting to abridge the most basic Constitutional Right that all American citizens have of Freedom of Speech. Discovery and TLC has treated Jon Gosselin like a dog by attempting to keep him on a leash and muzzle him and deny the father of eight the opportunity to earn a livelihood to support his family.
All of the aforesaid, clearly, in our opinion, renders the alleged contract as null and void, unenforceable and unconscionable.
Clearly, this litigation has heralded in the battle of ‘David’ against ‘Goliath’ and Jon Gosselin fully intends to stand firm, protect his family and defend against TLC and Discovery who have been rumored to have enjoyed over $186 million dollars in revenue for one quarter, purportedly attributed to the success of the program Jon & Kate plus eight.
This litigation is clearly a tactic that Discovery and TLC have initiated in furtherance of their hunger to jump back on the gravy train, but Jon Gosselin has decided to put the breaks on the Discovery and TLC trainwreck.”
Jeez, that was a mouthful! And it seemed somewhat repetitive, no?
So, now the prosecutors have read your opening statement, Mark. They’ll be much better prepared when you all go to trial! Good job!
But isn’t that what you all want anyway? A trial means media coverage. Media coverage is what get Jon’s rocks off these days. So you all should be thrilled. Everybody wins!
(We’re never going to get rid of these people, are we?)
[Image via WENN.]
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