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F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Subj: (fwd) Randi's newletter (geller-hotline) This edition contains an update on some of the litigation Randi is involved in vs. Uri Geller and others. =========== Return-Path: <<@redhotmomma.ssr.com:broadcast-geller-hotline-owner@ssr.com>> To: broadcast-geller-hotline@ssr.com Subject: Recent Legal Developments Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 09:34:00 -0500 ====== Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled against "self- styled psychic" Uri Geller and said that he must pay the $149,000 sanction decided against him for having brought frivolous litigation against me and the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). In 1991, Geller brought a defamation suit for $15,000,000 (of course not a realistic figure, but that's a little game played by lawyers) and then confidently declared on an American TV show that his psychic powers enabled him to predict that he would win the case. So much for Mr. Geller's predictive abilities. In its ruling, the court stated that "Since Geller's rise to prominence in the early 1970s," I had been "exposing various Geller feats as the fraudulent tricks of a confidence man." The court also referred to Mr. Geller as a "litigious person." Their words, not mine! Geller's primary lawyer was suspended from the practice of law on ethical grounds (not connected with this case) half-way through the proceedings, and another stepped in. The latter was also the lawyer for Geller's friend Eldon Byrd, who brought a libel case against me last year (for only $13,000,000, this time) and was awarded zero. The record to date: (1) Prometheus Books, also sued by Geller, was instead awarded $20,000, which Geller paid. (2) Geller sued Timex Watch Company for millions; he lost. (3) In France, a case Geller brought against magician Gerard Majax (of course for millions) was dismissed. (4) Two other multi-million-dollar cases brought against me by Geller in this country were dismissed. (5) In Hungary, a newspaper and I were sued (need I add, for millions?); I was dropped out of the case immediately, and the newspaper had to pay the equivalent of $25 to Geller as a wrist-slap. (6) I could not afford to defend a case Geller brought against me in Japan for millions and millions of yen, the court lowered the charge from "libel" to "insult," I lost the case by default, and the judge gave Geller one-third of one-percent of what he'd demanded; since the charge of "insult" is not recognized here in the U.S., I cannot be forced to pay. (7) On Friday, Geller's case against CSICOP and me was dismissed, and sanctions of $149,000 must be paid by Geller to CSICOP. (8) The Byrd case against me gave Byrd zero dollars on all three counts. (9) In January, further arguments will be made in U.S. Federal Court that Mr. Geller should pay more sanctions. Hey, our side is doing just great! Please understand that this most recent development does not deal with any settlement I will eventually have with Geller in connection with the case brought against me in Washington. CSICOP and I are quite separate entities in these matters, no CSICOP legal funds -- whether solicited from supporters or not -- have been used in my defence, and the James Randi Fund still exists to assist me in seeing this matter to a close. I still have heavy legal costs and will expend more money before this is all finished. There has been a misunderstanding with some persons that contributions made to the CSICOP defence fund were also used in my defence; that is not so. While I've made every attempt to individually thank each person and group that has contributed to the James Randi Fund, I had no way of knowing the identity of those who believed they were helping me when they gave to CSICOP. Sorry. I'll be away in the UK until Wednesday. I'll report to you all on what happens there. The final battle is coming up.... JR ************************************************** ** PROVIDED FOR YOUR REFERENCE BY THE MODERATOR ** ************************************************** Requests to be added to or deleted from the geller-hotline mailing list, must be sent to the service address: Internet: geller-hotline-request@ssr.com PLEASE BE PATIENT. All requests are processed before each new mailing to the list and these can be widely spaced. You *will* be added if your request was sent to the correct address. Mail to James Randi can be sent to: Internet: geller-hotline@ssr.com The Amazing One reads all mail and will generally respond eventually. This can change with growing volume, of course... Back issues of the geller-hotline are available via anonymous FTP to: USA: ftp.netcom.com directory: /pub/anson/Mailing_Lists/geller-hotline ftp.netcom.com directory: /pub/anson/Mailing_Lists/geller-hotline ftp.ssr.com: directory: /Randi Please try netcom.com first, since ftp.ssr.com is very busy. EUROPE: mercurio.iet.unipi.it directory: /pub/Randi Our gratitude goes to Anson Kennedy and Massimo Macucci for providing the ftp sites at netcom and unipi.it, respectively. -- Van (Sylvan Jacques) vanjac@netcom.com =============================================================== CARD CATALOG ENTRY DOS FILENAME OF TEXT FILE: E:\PCB\GEN\FILES\GENGEN\GELLER.TXT DOS FILENAME OF IMAGE FILES: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE: SECURITY CODE: DISTRIBUTION CODE: NAME FOR BBS: About Uri Geller's legal harassment of James Randi SORT TO: CONTRIBUTOR: James Randi, posting on the internet LOC. OF ORIG: NOTES: For additional verification see image files contained in the file with same name and .ZIP extension. 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