Andrew Freeman, Esquire | ADDED TO EEBA WATCHLIST

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The Evil Esquire Bar Asso­ci­a­tion is seek­ing pub­lic com­ment regard­ing the adven­tures of Mary­land, attor­ney Andrew D. Free­man, Esquire [#100880], prior to accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for his induc­tion into the EEBA.

On Sep­tem­ber 23, 2009, Andy signed his name as lead coun­sel on a law­suit brought by the “Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­mu­nity Orga­ni­za­tions for Reform Now, Inc., more com­monly known as “ACORN,” and two of ACORN’s for­mer employ­ees, Tonja Thomp­son and Shera Williams AGAINST James O’Keefe, Han­nah Giles and Breitbart.com LLC (a Cal­i­for­nia Lim­ited Lia­bil­ity Com­pany) seek­ing to enjoin them from con­tin­u­ing to dis­trib­ute and broad­cast the film “defen­dants” made of the ACORN employ­ees pro­vid­ing advice and coun­sel regard­ing the estab­lish­ment, oper­a­tion and tax­a­tion of a brothel for child pros­ti­tutes and sex slaves the inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ists alleged they were ille­gally bring­ing to the US from cen­tral Amer­ica. Here’s a link to the inves­ti­ga­tors video posted on YouTube [ACORN Pros­ti­tu­tion Inves­ti­ga­tion: Part 1]

The suit seeks to enjoin “defen­dants” from con­tin­u­ing to broad­cast and dis­trib­ute their film which, ignited out­rage by non-far-left extrem­ist Amer­i­cans opposed to ACORN’s prac­tices and, we believe, led the clowns in Wash­ing­ton D.C. to allegedly dis­con­tinue fund­ing the orga­ni­za­tion. Won­der where Andy stands politically?

Andy and the ACORN gang are con­tend­ing the defen­dants vio­lated Maryland’s Courts and Judi­cial Pro­ceed­ings Code §§ 10–402(a)(1),(2), and (3) by “dis­clos­ing and post­ing video­tapes, audio­tapes, tran­scripts, and descrip­tions of those inter­cepted con­ver­sa­tions on the Inter­net and pro­vid­ing them to Bre­it­bart, Fox News, and oth­ers with­out plain­tiffs’ knowl­edge or con­sent”. “As a direct and prox­i­mate result of the actions of defen­dants [ed. doing the Amer­i­can Peo­ple a favor], Ms. Thomp­son and Ms. Williams have lost their employ­ment [ed. which is why their employer ACORN is sup­port­ing this law­suit.. huh?] and have suf­fered extreme emo­tional dis­tress with atten­dant phys­i­cal symp­toms and injury to their rep­u­ta­tions [ed. Really? Folks who pro­vide advice as to how to cir­cum­vent the law suf­fer these kinds of injuries? Per­haps this needs amend­ing in the com­plaint to read “extreme embarrassment”?]

The suit goes on to allege “[d]efendants’ actions asfore­described [ed. a legal term] were done inten­tion­ally, will­fully, in reck­less dis­re­gard of the law, and with mal­ice [ed. to pro­tect tax dol­lars the clowns in Wash­ing­ton are inca­pable and not inter­ested in pro­tect­ing].” Obvi­ously Andy’s clients were oper­at­ing within the law or he wouldn’t have the balls to put his name on this suit. Or per­haps he believes a Bal­ti­more jury will over­look the sub­stance of their advice and counsel?

We tend to believe the lat­ter is the case. Accord­ing to Andy’s biog­ra­phy, posted on his firm’s web­site, he’s a Mary­land “SUPER LAWYER” for 2007, 2008 and 2009. Aren’t “SUPER LAWYERS” a group you pay to join? He also alleges he was voted “Mary­land Trial Lawyer of the Year” in 2000. Won­der if ACORN helped him reg­is­ter vot­ers for that election?

Pub­lished works Andy cred­its to him­self include the infor­ma­tive mas­ter­piece “The Effect of Ten­nis on His­tory,” pub­lished in USAir Mag­a­zine, May 1985 issue. Per­haps it was too long for Smithsonian?

Andy obtained his Juris Doc­tor­ate degree from Stan­ford Law School and received his Bach­e­lor of Arts degree from Har­vard Uni­ver­sity in 1981. That explains a lot! A num­ber of nom­i­nees for induc­tion into our noto­ri­ous orga­ni­za­tion also attended those fine institutions.

Andy’s co-counsel are: Greg Care, Esquire also of Brown, Gold­stein & Levy and Christo­pher Justin Brown, Esquire of the law office of C. Justin Brown [ed. Esquires love to use their first ini­tial. Sounds aris­to­cratic doesn’t it?] Messrs. Care and Brown were admit­ted to prac­tice in Mary­land in 2006. Mis­ter Care grad­u­ated from Lycoming Col­lege and obtained his law degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Bal­ti­more School of Law.

Are Andy and the Boyz tak­ing this case on con­tin­gency? Or is ACORN pay­ing them from some tax­payer funded reserve they’ve accu­mu­lated? Or are they doing it for notoriety?

Our opin­ion, an opin­ion we’re enti­tled to, per­haps under the Geneva Con­ven­tion i.e., the only legal doc­u­ment left wing extrem­ists seem to want to respect, and def­i­nitely the US Con­sti­tu­tion, is that these lawyers are using their lawyer licenses as weapons to exact spite­ful, polit­i­cally moti­vated revenge on behalf of an orga­ni­za­tion that should never have received $0.01 of fund­ing from hard work­ing Amer­i­can tax­pay­ers. And this is noth­ing but a trans­par­ent attempt to “prove” that evil lib­er­tar­ian, Glenn Beck of Fox News was actu­ally behind the inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ists ruse to out ACORN’s aid­ing and abet­ting of crim­i­nal activ­ity. But maybe we’re nuts? ACORN seems to attract a lot of them!

It appears to our untrained eyes the inves­ti­ga­tors were oper­at­ing within Maryland’s dra­con­ian oral com­mu­ni­ca­tion record­ing laws. Please com­ment if you have insight regard­ing Mary­land § 10–402 and rel­e­vant statutes ref­er­enced therein and case law on this sub­ject. Or if you believe the inves­ti­ga­tors did Amer­i­can tax­pay­ers a tremen­dous ser­vice by out­ing ACORN’s abhor­rent prac­tices and think Andy et al should be nom­i­nated for induc­tion into the EEBA. Or not!