Zzzz Campbell's Second Lawsuit Against Sun-N-Fun Zzzz

In article , Frank Hitlaw
says...

Hi Frank (my partner in the Great Chicken Heist)

Do you still have a copy of the lawsuit that zoom filed against you? I'd like to
have a copy for for a project I'm working on. I wonder if your suit was included
in the 27 that Ron W posted. Maybe there's more out there that we don't know
about. If he filed twice I wonder if that counts for 2 ? LOL!!!

Did he ever write about sueing SnF on ANN or is he keeping it a secret?

See ya

Chuck S RAH-15/1 ret aka "el Pollo Loco "

"evil didn't prosper because good men spoke and evil was still nuts" anon



Hey Chuck;

I know one case that he lost,the defendant didn't even have a
lawyer.He filed twice and went through five
attorneys.HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
If you run into El Pollo Loco say hello for me.
Frank M.Hitlaw
Jakarta,Indonesia

On 3 Oct 2003 03:13:52 -0700, ChuckSlusarczyk
wrote:

Do you still have a copy of the lawsuit that zoom filed against you? I'd like to
have a copy for for a project I'm working on. I wonder if your suit was included
in the 27 that Ron W posted. Maybe there's more out there that we don't know
about. If he filed twice I wonder if that counts for 2 ? LOL!!!

No, I didn't count Frank's because I have found no data on it. His name
doesn't come up when I search the Polk County Clerk of Court's online
database (which only goes back nominally ten years). That was the source
of most of my information:

http://www.polk-county.net/clerk/clerk.html

This provides a basic summary of the papers filed in each listed case,
with, in some instances, a final listing of disposition.

A more interesting search engine is the Polk County public record site:

http://ori2.polk-county.net/wb_or1/or_sch_1.asp

Like the Clerk site, you have to search for business names ("Airedale",
etc.) as well. Or you can search for known defendants, such as "Pulsar".
This site has actual digital copies of the papers filed in many of these
cases, and a lot more, like tax liens.

Sometimes, cases from other counties get mentioned in papers filed in
Polk... that's how I found data on the lawsuit against Don Jones/Jim
Campbell/AVIATOR INTERNATIONAL and Transcontinental Printing vs. Airedale
Press.

This site is also handy to determine if a lawsuit against "James Campbell"
is indeed against Zoom.

Happy surfing. :-)

Ron Wanttaja

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote
Polk County Clerk of Court's online database (which only goes back
nominally ten years).

So that means 27 suits in 10 years.... or 2-3 per year? That's disgusting.
Someone so litigous has clearly lost their rights to sue.

Eric

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:41:56 GMT, "Eric Miller" wrote:

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote
Polk County Clerk of Court's online database (which only goes back
nominally ten years).

So that means 27 suits in 10 years.... or 2-3 per year? That's disgusting.
Someone so litigous has clearly lost their rights to sue.

Well, that's 27 suits involving him, but he was the plaintiff in "only" a
bit more than a third of them.

However, when you add up the total number of people and companies who have
been sued by him or his companies, you do end up with about that many.

Not including the RAH-15 case, the list includes two managing editors of US
AVIATOR, at least five companies (or owners of companies) who were former
advertisers, several individuals or companies I don't recognize (Kropp
Enterprises, Bottom Line Sales, Steven Mann, Aircraft Refinishing Systems,
Harry Smiley). And Sun-N-Fun twice, of course.

Now, you add the RAH-15 case to that, and the totals come to:

Two managing editors (Ken Cooke and Laurel Ramey)
One other employee (Alan Staats, RAH-15)
Two associate editors (the position is merely a title, no salary or
employment is involved...RAH-15 defendants Vern Barr and myself
fall in this category. But as I've mentioned in the past,
I was never *asked* if I wanted to be an associate editor)
Eight former advertisers (Three RAH-15, counting Richard Riley/Berkut)
Nine other RAH-15 co-defendants.
Five individuals or companies I don't know well enough to classify.
One non-profit organization (Sun-N-Fun...twice!)

That's 28 people or companies that have had to defend themselves against a
lawsuit by Jim Campbell or his controlled companies. Most were dismissed
for lack of service, or lack of prosecution (e.g., Campbell filed the suit
and just walked away). Three settled out of court.

Ron Wanttaja

A minor correction...

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 05:56:17 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

:Not including the RAH-15 case, the list includes two managing editors of US
:AVIATOR, at least five companies (or owners of companies) who were former
:advertisers, several individuals or companies I don't recognize (Kropp
:Enterprises, Bottom Line Sales, Steven Mann, Aircraft Refinishing Systems,
:Harry Smiley). And Sun-N-Fun twice, of course.
:
:Now, you add the RAH-15 case to that, and the totals come to:
:
:Two managing editors (Ken Cooke and Laurel Ramey)

Didn't Judy Wood ever sue?

:One other employee (Alan Staats, RAH-15)
:Two associate editors (the position is merely a title, no salary or
: employment is involved...RAH-15 defendants Vern Barr and myself
: fall in this category. But as I've mentioned in the past,
: I was never *asked* if I wanted to be an associate editor)
:Eight former advertisers (Three RAH-15, counting Richard Riley/Berkut)

We never advertised. Probably would have, but we were the
subject of a pre-emptive zooming.

:Nine other RAH-15 co-defendants.
:Five individuals or companies I don't know well enough to classify.
:One non-profit organization (Sun-N-Fun...twice!)

And, of course, he was sued by the Boy's and Girl's club.
That had to hurt.

:That's 28 people or companies that have had to defend themselves against a
:lawsuit by Jim Campbell or his controlled companies. Most were dismissed
:for lack of service, or lack of prosecution (e.g., Campbell filed the suit
:and just walked away). Three settled out of court.

Too bad it's not enough to get him classified as a vexatious
litigant.

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:19:42 GMT, Richard Riley
wrote:

A minor correction...

:Two managing editors (Ken Cooke and Laurel Ramey)

Didn't Judy Wood ever sue?

No record of such in the online Polk County records.

Eight former advertisers (Three RAH-15, counting Richard Riley/Berkut)

We never advertised. Probably would have, but we were the
subject of a pre-emptive zooming.

Ah, my mistake then. I knew Chuck and Happy had advertised, and assumed
Berkut had as well. I suspect SnF used to advertise in the early days of
US AVIATOR, but didn't include them on my list.

One non-profit organization (Sun-N-Fun...twice!)

And, of course, he was sued by the Boy's and Girl's club.
That had to hurt.

Even more fun, one person is listed as a co-plaintiff with Campbell in a
suit he filed in March of 1993, and was listed as a co-defendant in a
lawsuit Zoom filed eight months later. Talk about blowing hot and cold....

In addition to the suit against Frank Hitlaw, I found another lawsuit that
had been filed against Campbell (The Printing House, Inc. vs. Airedale
Press, 1993). Campbell countersued, and they came to an out-of-court
settlement in December '93. The total count is now up to eleven suits with
Campbell or associated businesses as plaintiff, and 18 as a defendant.

One of the latter is a tentative. It was filed by a non-aviation entity
that had sued Zoom before, but I'm not entirely this one was against "the"
James Campbell. The first suit lists his business address, the second one
lists another address. But by that time US Aviator was closed down, and
the address listed on the filing may have been his home address.

On the other hand, the single case I listed as a "victory" because the suit
against him was dropped "with prejudice" may not have been correct. The
dismissal actually states the case had been "amicably settled." Sounds
more like another out-of-court settlement.

That's 28 people or companies that have had to defend themselves against a
:lawsuit by Jim Campbell or his controlled companies. Most were dismissed
:for lack of service, or lack of prosecution (e.g., Campbell filed the suit
:and just walked away). Three settled out of court.

Too bad it's not enough to get him classified as a vexatious
litigant.

Tony gave me considerable insight into this sort of thing. Basically,
judges dislike making such findings (ruling that the suit is frivolous,
etc.) so they don't happen very often. Even when they rule against a
plaintiff, there's always a slight chance there might have been some
validity in the suit.

However, if it was to have been tried, it should have been done in 1993.
In that year, Campbell filed six different lawsuits. After that, he was
(mostly) in the defensive mode (the first suit against SnF, and the RAH-15
countersuit).

He's picking up steam, again, though: he's filed three lawsuits in the last
eighteen months.

Ron Wanttaja

:That's 28 people or companies that have had to defend themselves against
a
:lawsuit by Jim Campbell or his controlled companies. Most were dismissed
:for lack of service, or lack of prosecution (e.g., Campbell filed the
suit
:and just walked away). Three settled out of court.

Too bad it's not enough to get him classified as a vexatious
litigant.


It might be enough to prove that he is filing SLAPP suits which have been
ruled
illegal. SLAPP stands for Strategic Litigation Against Private Parties.
These suits
were commonly filed by companies against persons to silence them as critics.

Might be worth a look.......

In article , Ron Wanttaja
writes:


This site is also handy to determine if a lawsuit against "James Campbell"
is indeed against Zoom.

Happy surfing. :-)

Ron Wanttaja



A couple of interesting points about his suit against Pulsar. Campbell used
Sun-N-Fun as his personal serving ground even though he was banned from the
location. He still managed to have Pulsar served with his lawsuit against them
at the 2002 Sun-N-Fun event. The intent of course was to force them to pay up
since it would be cheaper than having to take the time and fly all the way from
California to Florida for the trial. I don't think he believed the owner of
Pulsar would fight it and would just pay up. Surprise, he was wrong and the
owner of Pulsar was not going to be intimadated by Campbell's stupid suit.
This was also one of the reasons that Sun-N-Fun had barred him, he had done
this before.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote in message ...
In article , Frank Hitlaw
says...

Hi Frank (my partner in the Great Chicken Heist)

Do you still have a copy of the lawsuit that zoom filed against you? I'd like to
have a copy for for a project I'm working on. I wonder if your suit was included
in the 27 that Ron W posted. Maybe there's more out there that we don't know
about. If he filed twice I wonder if that counts for 2 ? LOL!!!

Did he ever write about sueing SnF on ANN or is he keeping it a secret?

See ya

Chuck S RAH-15/1 ret aka "el Pollo Loco "

"evil didn't prosper because good men spoke and evil was still nuts" anon



Hey Chuck;

I know one case that he lost,the defendant didn't even have a
lawyer.He filed twice and went through five
attorneys.HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
If you run into El Pollo Loco say hello for me.
Frank M.Hitlaw
Jakarta,Indonesia
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Chuck;

His lawsuit against me was filed in Highlands County, Florida
Sebring is the County seat. He refiled with a second attorney I don't
remember the exact date but the original was filed in April 1993.I
have the originals and will send them to you when I get back to the
States toward the end of the month. In 1991 he filed assault and
battery charges against me in criminal court in Polk County,As with
civil suit he lost. The only reason that there was no assault was that
the cowardly SOB ran from me and I couldn't catch him.He even said
that he beat feet away from me in his rag.Or you might say as juan
does he picked up his skirt and ran away!!To quote a great chicken
thief "what a phoney".
Frank M.Hitlaw, Executive Assistant to El Pollo Loco (Far East
Division)