Bully Pulpit
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McCaw Signs: In the wake of Wendy
McCaw’s Christmastime lawsuits and legal threats, a wry
joke is going around town: Who would Jesus sue?
Not many targets remain, as McCaw attorney Barry
Cappello has fired off threatening letters to a handful of
small businesses that dared to post copies of the “McCaw
Obey the Law” signs. Charged Cappello: “The sign implies
that Ms. McCaw is violating the law, which is not true and
defamatory.”
Countered Ira Gottlieb, attorney for the
Teamsters union representing News-Press
newsroom employees: “It is unfathomable that a court of law would
find the posting of this slogan in shop windows (or in people’s
vehicles or anywhere else) to be the basis for a valid libel
suit.”
