One of the ways that Team Kimberlin’s lawfare has backfired has related to restraining orders. The trigger for Everyone Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day, the event that focused attention on Kimberlin, was the unconstitutional peace order (that’s what they’re called in Maryland) he had issued against Aaron Walker in 2012. That order was overturned on appeal, and The Dread Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin hasn’t had a successful peace order petition since then.

OTOH, Bill Schmalfeldt has collected a dozen or so restraining orders in multiple states since 2013. I was the first person to be able to hold him accountable for his harassment. Of course, he appealed that first peace order, and of course, it was upheld on appeal. And it was extended because of his failure to comply. This post, #BillSchmalfeldt, Ace Legal Scholar, from five years ago today dealt with one of the bogus legal theories the Cabin Boy™ thought would save him from that peace order.

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U.S. v. Sullivan? I wonder which of the U.S. v. Sullivan cases the Cabin Boy thinks is applicable to his situation.

In U.S. v. Sullivan, 274 U.S. 259 (1927), the Supreme Court ruled that profits from the sale of illegal liquor were subject to income tax.

U.S. v. Sullivan, 332 U.S. 689 (68 S.Ct. 331, 92 L.Ed. 297), deals with provisions of Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.

I wonder if he’s going try to base his defense on being drunk or on drugs?

AFTERWORD—If the Cabin Boy meant New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), that deals with defamation, not harassment or failure to comply with a peace order. The appropriate Supreme Court case dealing with obeying court orders is most likely Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307 (1967).

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Ignorance will respond to education, but stupid is as stupid does.