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But the Nunes family is represented by sparklemagic libelslander lawyer Steven Biss, a one-man casebook on slapstick SLAPP suits. And so we find ourselves trying to piece together a heavily redacted motion from lawyers for Hearst Magazines, Lizza’s previous employer, which appears to allege a shocking variety of misconduct by the infamous defamation lawyer.
In an apparent attempt to bollix up depositions of NuStar employees, Biss first asserted that it was illegal to depose them, then claimed to represent the witnesses as employees of the dairy and agreed to accept service of process. At the deposition itself, he decided he did not represent them after all, but then disrupted the proceeding in some fashion so shocking that it is being blacked out of the court filing.