Owing $59,772 – Slavin wants a jury trial

In a five-page petition filed this week in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Historic City News has learned that self proclaimed “lay advocate” and disbarred Tennessee lawyer, Edward Adelbert Slavin, Jr., is now demanding a jury trial.

With motivations the Court says did not give them standing to intervene, Slavin and his employer, Judith Seraphin, attempted, unsuccessfully, to disrupt the orderly bankruptcy re-organization of Morris Publishing last year; his ill-advised actions leave him owing nearly $60k in restitution. In a fifteen-page order signed by US District Judge Honorable J. Randal Hall, the Court iterates paragraph after paragraph of inappropriate behavior amounting to the “filing of a frivolous appeal” by Slavin — leading to the conclusion that damages and costs would be levied against him.

Slavin claims Morris’ attempts to recover their legal fees, pursuant to the judgment against him, amounts to a “SLAPP” lawsuit — rather than an effort to recover from their injuries.

Slavin wants the Court to vacate the judgment awarded against him March 28, 2011, deny Morris Publishing the right to recover the legal expenses caused by Slavin’s misuse of the Court, allow unnamed “civil rights groups” to file briefs in the matter, allow Slavin 60 days to file counterclaims, order the US Trustee to investigate alleged abuse of the Court by Morris, to order Morris to show why they should not be sanctioned.