Women's Rights & Issues

Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York:

Collette McLafferty’s life was turned upside down in 2014 when the singer and songwriter was served with a $10 million lawsuit...by a person whom she had never met, stemming from a job she accepted in a P!NK tribute band...Bloggers and writers came to her defense, and turned their sights on the plaintiff who filed the $10 million case, Charles Bonfante.

Now the tables have turned...Bonfante, a personal injury lawyer who is representing himself, recently offered to drop his lawsuit and actually pay Collette “half her legal fees.” But McLafferty refuses to give in.

“Nobody should ever have to go through what I’ve been through. This situation has humiliated me publicly, damaged my reputation, my career, my livelihood. This is harassment, legalized extortion plain and simple.”

...McLafferty has teamed up with the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York, a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal reform advocacy organization to draft “Collette’s Law.” The draft legislation takes aim at frivolous lawsuits by requiring those who file meritless actions to pay the other party’s legal costs, as well as increasing sanctions for plaintiffs who file frivolous lawsuits...

HALF my legal fees? How about ALL of them, PLUS malicious damages? Better yet, accept Bonfante's offer in exchange for him giving up practicing law!


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