From: RDShatt
To: james.sheldon@duke.edu, james.emery@duke.edu, james.anton@duke.edu
Sent: 11/30/2009 5:37:21 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Email to Professor McGovern about class action lawsuit
Dear Professors Sheldon, Emery, and Anton ,
I have previously emailed Professor Francis McGovern at the Duke law school and numerous other law and business professors at Duke, and you may wish not to read further in this email based on that information.
I am a citizen activist against class action lawsuits, and I emailed Professor McGovern because of his involvement as an expert in a class action lawsuit (presumably for a fee), of which lawsuit I had received notice that I was a member of the plaintiff class (and arguably a source for payment of Professor McGovern's fee). (My email to Professor McGovern is appended below.)
I believe that Professor McGovern and other professors ought to be willing to express, for the benefit of the public, their opinions about significant policy questions in the realm of their expertise, such as that which I have inquired about of Professor McGovern in my email to him. This is particularly true in a situation in which a professor has received a fee for providing expertise in a narrow way, and a citizen activist/paying party, such as myself, asks the professor to state his views about a bigger picture of that which the professor has chosen to participate in and provide support to by that participation.
I hope Professor McGovern replies to me. He may not feel he is in a position to reply because to reply may improperly undercut what he was paid to do in the case.
The reason I am emailing you is that your respective courses of Legal Environment of Business, Ethics in Management, and Managerial Economics are indicative of expertise that is relevant (my basic contentions being that class action lawsuits (i) undermine business ethics, (ii) result in a waste of limited corporate resources that could be better deployed in other ways to promote ethical corporate behavior, and (iii) improperly distort risk assessment and result in the adoption of costly and uneconomic "defensive" corporate practices (like the practice of "defensive" medicine which is currently in the national spotlight as a driver of escalating health care costs that the United States is trying to control), which contentions are explicated in part by this article of mine Does the Civil Liability System Undermine Business Ethics? ).
To solicit your views may smack of guilt by association. If it does, I hope that only registers how objectionable I find the exploitation of the public that I believe is going on.
Thanks very much if you have gotten up to here in this email.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: McGovern@law.duke.edu
Sent: 11/21/2009 7:54:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Currency conversion fee litigation
Dear Professor McGovern,
Your faculty profile http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/mcgovern/ reveals very impressive work in the alternative dispute resolution arena, and you were retained as an expert in this currency conversion fee litigation http://www.ccfsettlement.com/, of which I received notice in 2007 that I was a member of the plaintiff class.
In 2007 I objected to the class action lawsuit in the form of this letter http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html that I wrote to Judge Pauley.
I understand that the litigation is now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
I continue very perturbed about this class action litigation.
I would like to ask you, if you would, to read my letter to Judge Pauley and to make comment to me as to whether I, more as a citizen than as a class member, have legitimate grounds for my objections, and the extent to which you agree or not with my objections.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
ABA Justice Center follow up
From: RDShatt
To: koellinp@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 11/28/2009 8:12:35 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Follow up on prior requests to become involved
Dear Mr. Koelling,
Earlier this year I sent the below emails to Ms. Skrzekut. Her name no longer appears on the ABA Justice Center webpage, and you are currently shown as the Director.
I continue to desire to become an "involved citizen." Can you please provide me responses to my requests about becoming involved?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: skrzekua@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 5/1/2009 7:32:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: ABA Justice Center- request to become involved
Dear Ms. Skrzekut,
I have not heard from you in response to the below email.
If I may, I would be interested in establishing contact with other "involved citizens" who are involved with the Justice Center. Are there any names or email addresses you can furnish me? If you don't wish to give out that information, can you at least send an email to other "involved citizens" that provides my name and email address and indicates I would like to communicate with them and that they should email me if they are receptive to communication with me.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: skrzekua@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 4/4/2009 9:18:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: ABA Justice Center- request to become involved
Dear Ms. Skrzekut,
Your website says the Justice Center seeks to accomplish justice system reform by "encouraging bench/bar/public collaboration" and that it "draws on the expertise of judges, bar leaders, law professors and deans, involved citizens, and others . . .."
I would like to participate as a member of the public. As to my qualifications as a citizen who wants to be involved and who is involved, I refer you to this "citizen's letter to judges" I am endeavoring to disseminate and other material that may be found at that link.
I look forward to hearing from you in response to this request.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
To: koellinp@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 11/28/2009 8:12:35 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Follow up on prior requests to become involved
Dear Mr. Koelling,
Earlier this year I sent the below emails to Ms. Skrzekut. Her name no longer appears on the ABA Justice Center webpage, and you are currently shown as the Director.
I continue to desire to become an "involved citizen." Can you please provide me responses to my requests about becoming involved?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: skrzekua@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 5/1/2009 7:32:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: ABA Justice Center- request to become involved
Dear Ms. Skrzekut,
I have not heard from you in response to the below email.
If I may, I would be interested in establishing contact with other "involved citizens" who are involved with the Justice Center. Are there any names or email addresses you can furnish me? If you don't wish to give out that information, can you at least send an email to other "involved citizens" that provides my name and email address and indicates I would like to communicate with them and that they should email me if they are receptive to communication with me.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: skrzekua@staff.abanet.org
Sent: 4/4/2009 9:18:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: ABA Justice Center- request to become involved
Dear Ms. Skrzekut,
Your website says the Justice Center seeks to accomplish justice system reform by "encouraging bench/bar/public collaboration" and that it "draws on the expertise of judges, bar leaders, law professors and deans, involved citizens, and others . . .."
I would like to participate as a member of the public. As to my qualifications as a citizen who wants to be involved and who is involved, I refer you to this "citizen's letter to judges" I am endeavoring to disseminate and other material that may be found at that link.
I look forward to hearing from you in response to this request.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Birmingham Business Alliance
From: RDShatt
To: dalton@birminghambusinessalliance.com
Sent: 11/26/2009 7:42:59 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: 2010 Attorney General election; AG's getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers
Dear Mr. Smith,
I consider an important public issue to be plaintiffs' lawyers and attorney generals getting into bed with them. I hope this will get publicized as an issue in the upcoming Alabama Attorney General election race.My views on the subject are laid out at this blog link of mine: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/E1.%20State%20attorney%20generals .
I hope The Birmingham Business Alliance will try to publicize this issue. If there is a way I can work with the Alliance on the matter, I would like to do that.
I hope I hear from you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Birmingham, AL 35223
(205) 967-5586
To: dalton@birminghambusinessalliance.com
Sent: 11/26/2009 7:42:59 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: 2010 Attorney General election; AG's getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers
Dear Mr. Smith,
I consider an important public issue to be plaintiffs' lawyers and attorney generals getting into bed with them. I hope this will get publicized as an issue in the upcoming Alabama Attorney General election race.My views on the subject are laid out at this blog link of mine: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/E1.%20State%20attorney%20generals .
I hope The Birmingham Business Alliance will try to publicize this issue. If there is a way I can work with the Alliance on the matter, I would like to do that.
I hope I hear from you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Birmingham, AL 35223
(205) 967-5586
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Business Council of Alabama
From: RDShatt
To: quentinr@bcatoday.org, victorv@bcatoday.org, elawlor@bcatoday.org, claireh@bcatoday.org, brandonc@bcatoday.org
Sent: 11/26/2009 12:15:54 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: 2010 Attorney General election; AG's getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers
To BCA Governmental Affairs staff:
Dear Mr. Riggins, Mr. Vernon, Ms. Lawler, Ms. Haynes, and Mr. Colvin,
I consider an important public issue to be plaintiffs' lawyers and attorney generals getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers. I hope this will get publicized as an issue in the upcoming Alabama Attorney General election race.My views on the subject are laid out at this blog link of mine: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/E1.%20State%20attorney%20generals .
I hope the Business Council of Alabama will try to publicize this issue. If there is a way I can work with the BCA on the matter, I would like to do that.
I hope I hear from you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Birmingham, AL 35223
(205) 967-5586
To: quentinr@bcatoday.org, victorv@bcatoday.org, elawlor@bcatoday.org, claireh@bcatoday.org, brandonc@bcatoday.org
Sent: 11/26/2009 12:15:54 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: 2010 Attorney General election; AG's getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers
To BCA Governmental Affairs staff:
Dear Mr. Riggins, Mr. Vernon, Ms. Lawler, Ms. Haynes, and Mr. Colvin,
I consider an important public issue to be plaintiffs' lawyers and attorney generals getting into bed with plaintiffs' lawyers. I hope this will get publicized as an issue in the upcoming Alabama Attorney General election race.My views on the subject are laid out at this blog link of mine: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/E1.%20State%20attorney%20generals .
I hope the Business Council of Alabama will try to publicize this issue. If there is a way I can work with the BCA on the matter, I would like to do that.
I hope I hear from you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Birmingham, AL 35223
(205) 967-5586
Email to Keenan Institute of Ethics faculty
From: RDShatt
To: pickus@duke.edu, wayne.norman@duke.edu, dan.ariely@duke.edu, eballeis@duke.edu
Sent: 11/25/2009 5:44:43 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Keenan Institute of Ethics, Professor McGovern, and currency conversion
Dear Professors Pickus, Norman, Ariely, and Balliesen,
I emailed Professor Francis McGovern and a few other Duke law faculty members regarding a class action lawsuit in which Professor McGovern was retained as an expert witness.
I am a citizen activist against class action lawsuits, which was the prompt for my emails to Professor McGovern and the other law professors. (My emails are appended below.)
The reason I am emailing you is that I believe there is an important business ethics component in my stance against class action lawsuits, to wit, that they undermine business ethics. This article of mine Does the Civil Liability System Undermine Business Ethics? explicates my contention.
Based on your faculty profiles on the KIE website I think my argumentation is worthy of (i) thinking about by Professor Norman in connection with his current work "on a conception of business ethics arising out of the economic and legal theory of the firm," (ii) investigation by a behavioral economist such as Professor Ariely, and (iii) being a basis for a possible recommendation for improvement by Professor Balleisen after he completes his "history of commercial fraud in the United States, and especially organizational fraud against consumers and investors."
I hope my sending this email to you triggers an interest on your part.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: ________
Sent: 11/2_/2009 _______. Central Standard Time
Subj: Email to Professor McGovern
Dear Professor ________,
I am sending you this email (which concerns the below email I have sent to Professor McGovern) for the following reasons:
I am a citizen activist regarding the subject matter of my email to Professor McGovern.
I believe that Professor McGovern and other professors ought to be willing to express, for the benefit of the public, their opinions about significant policy questions in the realm of their expertise, such as that which I have inquired about of Professor McGovern in my email to him.
I have experience with an unwillingness of professors to give the public (for free) the benefit of their views on significant policy questions. (For some excruciating, lengthy detail, see this link to my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/D1.%20WSJ%20project . )
Professor McGovern and other professors receive fees for lending their expertise in narrow ways and, by so doing, should not object, if a citizen activist such as myself, asks if they would be willing to state their views about a bigger picture of that which they have chosen to participate in and to support by their participation. (In this case, I have alleged that reprehensible skimming is going on, and, if that is a fair characterization, Professor McGovern is getting a fee out of that skimming.)
I hope Professor McGovern replies to me. He may not feel he is in a position to reply because to reply may improperly undercut what he was paid to do in the case in question.
I am writing you because you are a professorial colleague of Professor McGovern at the Duke University Law School, and the matter in question comes within your same realm of expertise as Professor McGovern's or within a pertinent realm of expertise that you have relative to legal, social, economics and/or ethics policy questions that are raised by the subject matter at hand. As a result, I do not have a hesitation to ask you as well what your views are, in the chance that you are willing to express them to me (which I will likely want to post in my blog).
I hope I hear from you in reply.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: McGovern@law.duke.edu
Sent: 11/21/2009 7:54:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Currency conversion fee litigation
Dear Professor McGovern,
Your faculty profile http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/mcgovern/ reveals very impressive work in the alternative dispute resolution arena, and you were retained as an expert in this currency conversion fee litigation http://www.ccfsettlement.com/, of which I received notice in 2007 that I was a member of the plaintiff class.
In 2007 I objected to the class action lawsuit in the form of this letter http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html that I wrote to Judge Pauley.
I understand that the litigation is now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
I continue very perturbed about this class action litigation.
I would like to ask you, if you would, to read my letter to Judge Pauley and to make comment to me as to whether I, more as a citizen than as a class member, have legitimate grounds for my objections, and the extent to which you agree or not with my objections.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
To: pickus@duke.edu, wayne.norman@duke.edu, dan.ariely@duke.edu, eballeis@duke.edu
Sent: 11/25/2009 5:44:43 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Keenan Institute of Ethics, Professor McGovern, and currency conversion
Dear Professors Pickus, Norman, Ariely, and Balliesen,
I emailed Professor Francis McGovern and a few other Duke law faculty members regarding a class action lawsuit in which Professor McGovern was retained as an expert witness.
I am a citizen activist against class action lawsuits, which was the prompt for my emails to Professor McGovern and the other law professors. (My emails are appended below.)
The reason I am emailing you is that I believe there is an important business ethics component in my stance against class action lawsuits, to wit, that they undermine business ethics. This article of mine Does the Civil Liability System Undermine Business Ethics? explicates my contention.
Based on your faculty profiles on the KIE website I think my argumentation is worthy of (i) thinking about by Professor Norman in connection with his current work "on a conception of business ethics arising out of the economic and legal theory of the firm," (ii) investigation by a behavioral economist such as Professor Ariely, and (iii) being a basis for a possible recommendation for improvement by Professor Balleisen after he completes his "history of commercial fraud in the United States, and especially organizational fraud against consumers and investors."
I hope my sending this email to you triggers an interest on your part.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: ________
Sent: 11/2_/2009 _______. Central Standard Time
Subj: Email to Professor McGovern
Dear Professor ________,
I am sending you this email (which concerns the below email I have sent to Professor McGovern) for the following reasons:
I am a citizen activist regarding the subject matter of my email to Professor McGovern.
I believe that Professor McGovern and other professors ought to be willing to express, for the benefit of the public, their opinions about significant policy questions in the realm of their expertise, such as that which I have inquired about of Professor McGovern in my email to him.
I have experience with an unwillingness of professors to give the public (for free) the benefit of their views on significant policy questions. (For some excruciating, lengthy detail, see this link to my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/D1.%20WSJ%20project . )
Professor McGovern and other professors receive fees for lending their expertise in narrow ways and, by so doing, should not object, if a citizen activist such as myself, asks if they would be willing to state their views about a bigger picture of that which they have chosen to participate in and to support by their participation. (In this case, I have alleged that reprehensible skimming is going on, and, if that is a fair characterization, Professor McGovern is getting a fee out of that skimming.)
I hope Professor McGovern replies to me. He may not feel he is in a position to reply because to reply may improperly undercut what he was paid to do in the case in question.
I am writing you because you are a professorial colleague of Professor McGovern at the Duke University Law School, and the matter in question comes within your same realm of expertise as Professor McGovern's or within a pertinent realm of expertise that you have relative to legal, social, economics and/or ethics policy questions that are raised by the subject matter at hand. As a result, I do not have a hesitation to ask you as well what your views are, in the chance that you are willing to express them to me (which I will likely want to post in my blog).
I hope I hear from you in reply.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: McGovern@law.duke.edu
Sent: 11/21/2009 7:54:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Currency conversion fee litigation
Dear Professor McGovern,
Your faculty profile http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/mcgovern/ reveals very impressive work in the alternative dispute resolution arena, and you were retained as an expert in this currency conversion fee litigation http://www.ccfsettlement.com/, of which I received notice in 2007 that I was a member of the plaintiff class.
In 2007 I objected to the class action lawsuit in the form of this letter http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html that I wrote to Judge Pauley.
I understand that the litigation is now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
I continue very perturbed about this class action litigation.
I would like to ask you, if you would, to read my letter to Judge Pauley and to make comment to me as to whether I, more as a citizen than as a class member, have legitimate grounds for my objections, and the extent to which you agree or not with my objections.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
Email to other parties in litigation
From: RDShatt
To: lucretia_eldridge@yahoo.com, dsorensen@bm.net, russ@wildwoodlamps.com, kskoenig@hotmail.com, vrw@vrwalkerco.com, ibizar@ballonstoll.com, clasaxn@earthlink.net, CMTLAW, rsglaw@bellsouth.net, AltmanLaw, efsiegel@efs-law.com, edwardcochran@adelphia.net, chris@chrisgraeser.com, bjasinski@carolina.rr.com, bamford@oz.net, ourfreebies@comcast.net, onewaywon1@gmail.com, barrington1assoc@cox.net, Edward@hasbrouck.org, douglascoleesq@att.net, firm@bishoplegal.net, mbishop@drhrlaw.com, kennelson@mclaw.com, htomlinson@bellsouth.net, downeyjustice@gmail.com, pkamenar@wlf.org, Darrell.palmer@cox.net, bpatterson@wattslawfirm.com, jskess@charter.net, N.A.Bacharach@att.net, psr@rothsteinforjustice.com
Sent: 11/25/2009 4:52:11 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Judge Pauley's stamp of approval on currency conversion shenanigans
To Whom It May Concern,
In 2007 I sent this letter to Judge Pauley: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html
At the end of the letter I characterized the class action lawsuit as "skimming" by the attorneys and said this to Judge Pauley:
Judge Pauley has put his stamp of approval on the shenanigans, and it is unlikely that the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will overrule Judge Pauley.
Currently I do not intend to try to submit anything to the 2nd Circuit but if anyone submitting something to the 2nd Circuit would like to include a statement of objection from me, I would be pleased to provide it.
I have attempted and will continue to attempt to register, in ways outside the judicial proceedings, as strong an objection as I can to the shenanigans that Judge Pauley put his stamp of approval on. If you are interested, you can find my activities memorialized at this link on my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/J0.%20Credit%20card%20currency%20conversion
For those persons who agree with my views, I hope you will try to find ways to continue to register your strong objection as well.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
To: lucretia_eldridge@yahoo.com, dsorensen@bm.net, russ@wildwoodlamps.com, kskoenig@hotmail.com, vrw@vrwalkerco.com, ibizar@ballonstoll.com, clasaxn@earthlink.net, CMTLAW, rsglaw@bellsouth.net, AltmanLaw, efsiegel@efs-law.com, edwardcochran@adelphia.net, chris@chrisgraeser.com, bjasinski@carolina.rr.com, bamford@oz.net, ourfreebies@comcast.net, onewaywon1@gmail.com, barrington1assoc@cox.net, Edward@hasbrouck.org, douglascoleesq@att.net, firm@bishoplegal.net, mbishop@drhrlaw.com, kennelson@mclaw.com, htomlinson@bellsouth.net, downeyjustice@gmail.com, pkamenar@wlf.org, Darrell.palmer@cox.net, bpatterson@wattslawfirm.com, jskess@charter.net, N.A.Bacharach@att.net, psr@rothsteinforjustice.com
Sent: 11/25/2009 4:52:11 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Judge Pauley's stamp of approval on currency conversion shenanigans
To Whom It May Concern,
In 2007 I sent this letter to Judge Pauley: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html
At the end of the letter I characterized the class action lawsuit as "skimming" by the attorneys and said this to Judge Pauley:
As I have indicated, the skimming that is going on by the attorneys here is at
least as reprehensible as the skimming that the creditcard companies and banks
are alleged to have perpetrated.In short, Your Honor, I think you should be
ashamed to put your stamp of approval on these shenanigans.
Judge Pauley has put his stamp of approval on the shenanigans, and it is unlikely that the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will overrule Judge Pauley.
Currently I do not intend to try to submit anything to the 2nd Circuit but if anyone submitting something to the 2nd Circuit would like to include a statement of objection from me, I would be pleased to provide it.
I have attempted and will continue to attempt to register, in ways outside the judicial proceedings, as strong an objection as I can to the shenanigans that Judge Pauley put his stamp of approval on. If you are interested, you can find my activities memorialized at this link on my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/J0.%20Credit%20card%20currency%20conversion
For those persons who agree with my views, I hope you will try to find ways to continue to register your strong objection as well.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Email to other Duke law professors
[Email sent to Professors Thomas Metzloff, Ted Kaufman, Charles Becton, Donald Beskin, and William Mills ]
From: RDShatt
To: ___________
Sent: 11/__/2009 ___ P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Email to Professor McGovern
Dear Professor _______,
I am sending you this email (which concerns the below email I have sent to Professor McGovern) for the following reasons:
I am a citizen activist regarding the subject matter of my email to Professor McGovern.
I believe that Professor McGovern and other professors ought to be willing to express, for the benefit of the public, their opinions about significant policy questions in the realm of their expertise, such as that which I have inquired about of Professor McGovern in my email to him.
I have experience with an unwillingness of professors to give the public (for free) the benefit of their views on significant policy questions. (For some excruciating, lengthy detail, see this link to my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/D1.%20WSJ%20project . )
Professor McGovern and other professors receive fees for lending their expertise in narrow ways and, by so doing, should not object, if a citizen activist such as myself, asks if they would be willing to state their views about a bigger picture of that which they have chosen to participate in and to support by their participation. (In this case, I have alleged that reprehensible skimming is going on, and, if that is a fair characterization, Professor McGovern is getting a fee out of that skimming.)
I hope Professor McGovern replies to me. He may not feel he is in a position to reply because to reply may improperly undercut what he was paid to do in the case in question.
I am writing you because you are a professorial colleague of Professor McGovern at the Duke University Law School, and the matter in question comes within your same realm of expertise as Professor McGovern's or within a pertinent realm of expertise that you have relative to legal, social, economics and/or ethics policy questions that are raised by the subject matter at hand. As a result, I do not have a hesitation to ask you as well what your views are, in the chance that you are willing to express them to me (which I will likely want to post in my blog).
I hope I hear from you in reply.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: McGovern@law.duke.edu
Sent: 11/21/2009 7:54:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Currency conversion fee litigation
Dear Professor McGovern,
Your faculty profile http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/mcgovern/ reveals very impressive work in the alternative dispute resolution arena, and you were retained as an expert in this currency conversion fee litigation http://www.ccfsettlement.com/, of which I received notice in 2007 that I was a member of the plaintiff class.
In 2007 I objected to the class action lawsuit in the form of this letter http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html that I wrote to Judge Pauley.
I understand that the litigation is now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
I continue very perturbed about this class action litigation.
I would like to ask you, if you would, to read my letter to Judge Pauley and to make comment to me as to whether I, more as a citizen than as a class member, have legitimate grounds for my objections, and the extent to which you agree or not with my objections.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: ___________
Sent: 11/__/2009 ___ P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Email to Professor McGovern
Dear Professor _______,
I am sending you this email (which concerns the below email I have sent to Professor McGovern) for the following reasons:
I am a citizen activist regarding the subject matter of my email to Professor McGovern.
I believe that Professor McGovern and other professors ought to be willing to express, for the benefit of the public, their opinions about significant policy questions in the realm of their expertise, such as that which I have inquired about of Professor McGovern in my email to him.
I have experience with an unwillingness of professors to give the public (for free) the benefit of their views on significant policy questions. (For some excruciating, lengthy detail, see this link to my blog: http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/search/label/D1.%20WSJ%20project . )
Professor McGovern and other professors receive fees for lending their expertise in narrow ways and, by so doing, should not object, if a citizen activist such as myself, asks if they would be willing to state their views about a bigger picture of that which they have chosen to participate in and to support by their participation. (In this case, I have alleged that reprehensible skimming is going on, and, if that is a fair characterization, Professor McGovern is getting a fee out of that skimming.)
I hope Professor McGovern replies to me. He may not feel he is in a position to reply because to reply may improperly undercut what he was paid to do in the case in question.
I am writing you because you are a professorial colleague of Professor McGovern at the Duke University Law School, and the matter in question comes within your same realm of expertise as Professor McGovern's or within a pertinent realm of expertise that you have relative to legal, social, economics and/or ethics policy questions that are raised by the subject matter at hand. As a result, I do not have a hesitation to ask you as well what your views are, in the chance that you are willing to express them to me (which I will likely want to post in my blog).
I hope I hear from you in reply.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
From: RDShatt
To: McGovern@law.duke.edu
Sent: 11/21/2009 7:54:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Currency conversion fee litigation
Dear Professor McGovern,
Your faculty profile http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/mcgovern/ reveals very impressive work in the alternative dispute resolution arena, and you were retained as an expert in this currency conversion fee litigation http://www.ccfsettlement.com/, of which I received notice in 2007 that I was a member of the plaintiff class.
In 2007 I objected to the class action lawsuit in the form of this letter http://robertshattuck.blogspot.com/2007/11/september-2007-credit-card-currency.html that I wrote to Judge Pauley.
I understand that the litigation is now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
I continue very perturbed about this class action litigation.
I would like to ask you, if you would, to read my letter to Judge Pauley and to make comment to me as to whether I, more as a citizen than as a class member, have legitimate grounds for my objections, and the extent to which you agree or not with my objections.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Shattuck
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