TX: Registration lawsuit dismissed
Earlier this year we warned of a law firm based in Texas that was actively soliciting people on the Florida registry for a “class action lawsuit”. The lawsuit Estes-Hightower filed in their home state of Texas was dismissed yesterday. We are concerned about the fate of the very similar suit they brought in Florida.
We warned our members who received unsolicited letters in the mail to “be VERY cautious about these opportunists who market service to registrants.”
While the firm did file lawsuits, in the opinion of attorneys familiar with the issues and the pleadings, the cases were very rough from the get go. With respect to the TX case we were told, “existing precedent in the Fifth Circuit was already in place that rendered each and every one of Estes-Hightower’s claims frivolous.”
Naturally we are very disappointed to see any registration challenge fail, but this one makes us angry. It is our opinion that this firm is going state-by-state, using the sex offender registries as a marketing list in order to solicit vulnerable individuals and families to pay thousands of dollars and doing them a huge disservice.
Not only does it hurt the plaintiffs, but creating bad precedent harms every registrant in the state!
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You gutless pieces of garbage. Go ahead and “moderate” away relevant comment on your actionable slander. Teri should have sued your worthless asses. Ever heard of Doe v. Moore morons? You will. Go screw yourselves instead of children.
Nice offensive comment, You do realize we can track your IP address from your submission, right?
How do you think your clients would feel if they knew how you feel about the people you represent?
Did the poor little baby get his feelings hurt? Resorting to insults is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Dear FAC,
I think you should have specifically identified who the writer (“Really?”) truly is in your post. And as for the “Voice of Reason” contributor, he or she apparently doesn’t know that Gundy concerns the non-delegation of authority doctrine‎, and that, in addition to the fact that Boyd HAS NOT yet been granted review in the US Supreme Court (as Estes-Hightower states in the latest email to her “Marks”), the Texas registration statute is not a “next-generation” statute. Rather, it is for all meaningful purposes the same statute that was presented in Smith v. Doe (the Alaska statute)(no residency restriction).
As for the Swearingen lawsuit, I consider Val’s complaint to be far more meritorious for a variety of reasons that ‎I’ll not expend the time to go into now. I also find it amusing that Estes-Hightower, or her local co-conspirator in Florida, wants to assign a “competitive” motivation to a non-profit organization such as FAC, which operates solely on voluntary contributions, and not on mercenary tactics unsupported by any good faith intention, to advance the rights of registrants and their family members. Finally, I think the post you refer to is not only “inappropriate,” but that it also provides additional evidence that their whole scheme was undertaken in bad faith.Â
We need to respect the anonymity of our posters. Their post was despicable, but we chose not to delete it because it gives readers more insight into the character of the person making the posts. That “go screw yourselves instead of children.” comment was very telling.
That’s fine. I respect your integrity. And in any event, to more obviously disclose who the writer going by “Really?” and by “Voice of Reason” is would be unnecessary I think. Any discerning reader has likely already figured out who the person going by those cowardly pseudonyms is.
I enjoy seeing the negative posts too. Good reminders of the kind of hate we are up against, usually from people who have their own sins to keep covered.