LEO STOLLER TRUTH SERUM BLOG

The Leo Stoller  Truth Serum Blog sincerely thanks all of those who have contacted the blog with information regarding Leo Stoller, as well as those who have provided words of encouragement and support.

The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog is a small but determined band of tenacious truth-seekers, and quite frankly, welcomes the input of its readers regarding Leo Stoller and his “industry of frivolous litigation.”

Which brings us to the topic of the day. On his Wednesday, February 25, 2009 blog, Leo Stoller– the self-appointed “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert” and Legal Ethics Expert”– posted that he had been preparing briefs until 1:30 am in preparation of three court hearings in Cook County law division cases scheduled for that morning.

His blog entry was posted under the title of “See You In Court,” undoubtedly an attempt by Leo Stoller to suggest that, well, appearing in court against Leo Stoller is somehow an intimidating experience.

The Truth Serum can imagine any court appearance involving Leo Stoller as being frustrating, exasperating, migraine-inducing, and laughable based on Leo Stoller’s record of frivolous lawsuits, misrepresentation, and other egregious behavior. But intimidating? The Truth Serum has never heard anything of the sort.

Regardless, something went terribly wrong. Leo Stoller was hauled out of court in handcuffs and ordered held in a psychiatric ward pending an evaluation prior to being sentenced for criminal contempt. 

The facts and circumstances surrounding the events leading to Leo Stoller being hauled out of court in handcuffs and held in a psychiatric ward are unclear at this time, and one can only make an educated guess that it involved Leo Stoller engaging in some form of disdainful behavior that the Court was unwilling to tolerate.  

Because the Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog never wants to be accused of piling on– despite how much someone may deserve it– the Truth Serum will be taking a hiatus while Leo Stoller deals with his myriad of legal problems.

Not to worry, though– if Leo Stoller reverts to his old ways of doing things, the Truth Serum will be back with a vengeance.  

EDITOR’S NOTE: Leo Stoller, just like everyone else, is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog can be found at http://stollerexposed.blog.com and is dedicated to providing full disclosure about Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and has a long record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct— yet continues to represent himself to the public as “the nation’s leading trademark expert,” a “legal ethics expert,” and a “intellectual property expert.” The Courts, however, have a far different view of Stoller—they have called him a “vexatious litigant” whose purpose is to “harass legitimate actors for the purpose of extracting a settlement amount,” and have noted that Leo Stoller’s “lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”

The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog is dedicated to all those who have been subjected to unprovoked and unsubstantiated attacks by Leo Stoller on a blog he claims as “adhering to the Law and the Constitution as its authority,” as well as attacked in a justice system that often struggles with the question of how to deal with an individual who repeatedly displays an utter lack of respect for its hallowed halls.

The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog can be found at http://stollerexposed.blog.com and is dedicated to providing full disclosure about Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and has a long record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct— yet continues to represent himself to the public as “the nation’s leading trademark expert,” a “legal ethics expert,” and a “intellectual property expert.” The Courts, however, have a far different view of Stoller—they have called him a “vexatious litigant” whose purpose is to “harass legitimate actors for the purpose of extracting a settlement amount,” and have noted that Leo Stoller’s “lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”

Special recognition is given to those who have been subjected to these unprovoked attacks and unsubstantiated rhetoric and, instead of bowing in the face of threats, harasssment, and unscrupulous tactics, have decided that some things are, plain and simple, worth fighting for.

In reality, Leo Stoller– who gloriously refers to himself as the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert” and a “Legal Ethics Expert”– has been fairly described by the courts as engaging in fraudulent, oppressive, and harassing conduct; he has been enjoined from filing further pleadings in the United States Supreme Court for “repeatedly abusing the Court’s process”; the Executive Committee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division), in an Order signed by Chief Judge James F. Holderman, came to the conclusion that Leo Stoller must be restrained from filing cases in that District; and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office is on record as stating that Leo Stoller engages in a pattern of filing documents that are replete with false statements and material misrepresentations. Unfortunately, Leo Stoller’s record of misconduct is far too extensive to be repeated here.

Leo Stoller’s methods, obviously, have been reviled by the courts as well those individuals and businesses he has targeted. The common thread behind his motives appears to be pure, unabashed self-interest.

First, Leo Stoller’s tactics have been exposed on numerous occasions. He is known for sending out letters asserting frivolous legal claims and demanding money or other action in order for him to go away. Second, he is well-known for threatening and coercing businesses and individuals into acquiescing to his demands out of fear that he will post, or continue to post,  false and derogatory information about them on his blog. Third, and most obviously, it is well-documented that he resorts in highly-questionable tactics such as fraud, misrepresentation, harassment, falsifying documents, and a sordid tool chest full of other nefarious tactics as a means to justify his end.

Unfortunately for Leo Stoller, his days of abusing this country’s judicial system– and, quite possibly, his own individual freedom– are coming to a close.

As always, the Leo Stoller Truth Serum encourages each and everyone to do their own research about Leo Stoller. The Truth Serum encourages each and everyone to form an independent opinion, to rely on their own conclusions after a thorough and fair reading of the facts and, most importantly, not to blindly accept the  Truth Serum’s opinion or anyone else’s and, by all means, don’t accept whatever is spewing from Leo Stoller’s mouth at any given moment in time.

For anyone who has been dragged involuntarily into Leo Stoller’s theater of the absurd, this blog is dedicated to you. The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog is your blog.

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Well, this stuff is too funny to make up. It’s Will Ferrell. No, it’s Vince Vaughn. No, it’s Will Ferrell imitating Vince Vaughn imitating Eddie Murphy imitating Richard Prior telling Bill Cosby to have a Coke and a smile and shut the @!%& up. Whatever it is, it’s insanely funny.

In his Sunday, February 22, 2009 blog, Leo Stoller–the self-anointed “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert” and “Legal Ethics Expert”– announced that his “Americans for the Enforcement of Attorney Ethics” organization (probably more accurately described as, ahem, “Leo Stoller’s Harassment and Slander Symposium”) had obtained a “[l]ist of the 2009 Oscar Winners” straight from “the Academy.” 

According to Leo Stoller, the Academy had requested that he not release the names of the Oscar winners until after the conclusion of that night’s Academy Awards Presentation.

Cough, snort, gargle, gargle, snort. I told you this stuff was too funny to make up.

Leo Stoller– being the staunch, law-abiding Free Speech Advocate that he is– stated that he was standing on his “First Amendment right to free speech” to release the information to his “thousands” of readers prior to the live television broadcast.

So Leo, in his infinite wisdom, posted the names of the Oscar winners in 23 separate categories.

(Okay, granted, it doesn’t sound all that strange so far, not even by the standards applied to a man who has been the subject of numerous rebukes by everyone from the United States Supreme Court to state court judges.)

Well, this is where it becomes a gut-splitter. 

Leo Stoller did surpass his record of factual accuracy by at least ten-fold. He did predict that the late Heath Ledger would win best supporting actor for his role as “the Joker” in the Batman epic. And he got a few others correct. But, of the 23 Oscar winners he posted before the awards as coming straight from “the Academy,” he only got 9 right. 

Oh, Leo, didn’t anyone ever tell you that you can’t trust those Hollywood types?

Strangely, after the Academy Awards presentation on Sunday night– where he got an astounding 9 out of 23 Oscar winners correct after getting the information, cough, gargle, gargle, snort, straight from the Academy–Hollywood insider Leo Stoller’s blog entry of Sunday, February 22, 2009, which stated that he had “obtained  the list of the 2009 Oscar winners,” well, it suddenly changed. 

By way of miracle or some form of divine intervention, the list of Oscar winners that he originally posted– and of which he only got 9 out of 23 correct– suddenly transformed itself into a streamlined version where every winner in every category was correct. Leo, for the first time in his life and by way of retroactive editing– had managed to become 100% correct in something.

Amazingly, and perhaps for the first time in his adult life, Leo Stoller’s credibility appeared– perhaps to those who might not know better– to be 100% intact. 

The Truth Serum, as always, will try to call itself out when it is wrong. And, in this instance, maybe the Truth Serum is wrong– maybe it isn’t all that funny, after all, and is just plain pathetic.

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The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog can be found at http://stollerexposed.blog.com and is dedicated to providing full disclosure about Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and has a long record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct— yet continues to represent himself to the public as “the nation’s leading trademark expert,” a “legal ethics expert,” and a “intellectual property expert.” The Courts, however, have a far different view of Stoller—they have called him a “vexatious litigant” whose purpose is to “harass legitimate actors for the purpose of extracting a settlement amount,” and have noted that Leo Stoller’s “lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”

Leo Stoller not only proclaims himself to be the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert,” but he also fancies himself to be a “Legal Ethics Expert.” Suffice it to say that the Truth Serum, as always, admires Leo Stoller’s penchant for making bold statements that, the Truth Serum humbly suggests, are closer to fiction than reality.

In case you may have noticed, the Truth Serum finds itself in that annual time warp where the football season has ended and the baseball season has yet to begin. Like many of you, the Truth Serum yearns for those rare moments of relaxation and solitude where one has sole possession of the remote control and, whaddyaknow, there just happens to be a great game on. Ah, Nirvana.

Which brings to mind one of Leo Stoller’s more hamhanded attempts at judicial abuse and shaking down someone who did nothing wrong.  

I am talking about Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee George Brett, who played several years for the Kansas City Royals and, obviously, is considered one of the greatest players in the history of baseball.

Leo Stoller, you see, has been known for his attempts to sniff out anyone who has been fortunate enough to experience some degree of success in life, then attempt to shake them down for money in the form of a “settlement.”

In this case, Leo Stoller’s target of prey was Mr. George Brett. In the late-1990’s, Mr. Brett formed a company with his brothers Ken, John, and Robert, all of whom had played professional baseball. The brothers decided to develop and market a baseball bat known as the “Stealth.”

Well, Leo Stoller, in his world of unbound logic, decided to assert a claim that he owned the rights to the word “Stealth.” In the Land of Leo, of course, that also meant that Baseball Hall of Fame inductee George Brett was infringing on Leo Stoller’s use of the word “Stealth” and, therefore, George Brett owed  him big bucks.

Well, for those of you who never went to law school and never aspired to be an attorney (and the Truth Serum would never criticize anyone for that!), we will leave out the more finite points of trademark law and ethical behavior, and simply allow you to chew on Leo Stoller’s assertions that he is a “Legal Ethics Expert.”

In an opinion issued in that case, it was made abundantly clear as to what Leo Stoller’s definition of “Legal Ethics Expert” really means.

The Court in that case appeared to be particularly irritated at Leo Stoller’s behavior and his proclivity for bringing frivolous lawsuits, engaging in unethical behavior, and in general, just behaving in the way that Leo Stoller is known to behave.

The Court, of course, demonstrated its ability to make things perfectly clear, even when it came to the inner-workings of the Leo Stoller mindset. The Court had this to say about Leo Stoller and the subject of ethical behavior:

                    ”[Leo Stoller] offered irrelevant, questionable, and seemingly 
                    fantastical documents; inconsistent, uncorroborated, or 
                    arguably false testimony from Leo Stoller….Further, the 
                    enormous range in license fees…strongly suggests what 
                    several courts in this district have suspected: [Leo Stoller] 
                    engage[s] in a pattern and practice of harassing legitimate 
                    actors for extracting a settlement amount. The judicial system 
                    is not to be used as a aid in such deliberate, malicious,
                    and fraudulent conduct.” [Emphasis added.]
                       
Well, there you have it– one small example of the scrutiny Leo Stoller has brought upon himself for engaging in a systematic pattern of unethical behavior and judicial abuse.

As always, don’t rely on the Truth Serum to tell you what is what, and certainly don’t listen to Leo Stoller’s distorted sense of reality. Check these things out yourself. Do research. It’s all in the court records.

And no, the Truth Serum would never do something as cruel as leaving you left to wonder how George Brett fared in that case. Let’s just put it this way: Mr. Brett was less than enthralled with being accused of wrongdoing from the likes of Leo Stoller, and he charged ahead in a way that made his sprint from the dugout during the famous “Pine Tar Incident” look like a Sunday stroll.

Not only was Leo Stoller’s version of “ethical behavior” exposed for all the world to see, Leo Stoller was also ordered to pay Mr. Brett’s attorneys’ fees as punishment for, among other things, filing a lawsuit that had no merit and engaging in behavior that was fairly described as nothing less than “fraudulent.”

Leo Stoller, a “Legal Ethics Expert”? 

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The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog can be found at http://stollerexposed.blog.com and is dedicated to providing full disclosure about Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and has a long record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct— yet continues to represent himself to the public as “the nation’s leading trademark expert,” a “legal ethics expert,” and a “intellectual property expert.” The Courts, however, have a far different view of Stoller—they have called him a “vexatious litigant” whose purpose is to “harass legitimate actors for the purpose of extracting a settlement amount,” and have noted that Leo Stoller’s “lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”

There is little doubt that Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and regularly refers to himself as the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert” and a legal ethics expert–possesses the marketing savvy of P.T. Barnum and the ability to spin facts like a political campaign strategist.

The Truth Serum, as always, welcomes anyone who is interested in Leo Stoller’s background and qualifications to do their own research. Do not rely on the opinions expressed by the Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog or anyone else, and certainly don’t rely on the representations made by Leo Stoller himself. Be your own person. Check the facts. Look at the record. Come to your own independent  conclusions.

When it comes to the subject of Leo Stoller’s assertion that he is the ”Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert,” the Truth Serum can only chuckle.

For you football fans out there, it brings to mind one of the most famous post-game meltdowns in NFL history.

In November 2001, after an embarrasssing 40-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, head coach Jim Mora took to the podium to answer questions about his Indianapolis Colts. Clearly agitated, everyone in the room felt something memorable might happen.

And it did. Mora, whose veins had begun to pop from his neck, was asked about his team’s prospects for making the playoffs.

“Playoffs?!” he shot back, his voice crackling. “Playoffs?! Are you kidding me! I’m hoping we can win a game!” Shaking his head, he couldn’t resist showing his consternation once again: “Playoffs!?!”

One can only shake their heads at Leo Stoller’s insistence that he is the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert.”

“Expert?!” “Expert?!” The Truth Serum can only answer with the same bemusement that befell head coach Jim Mora when asked about his team’s dismal record and its chances of making the playoffs. “Expert!?!”

In one proceeding, the Executive Committee for the federal judicial district of the Northern District of Illinois– in addressing Leo Stoller’s pattern of misconduct, nonetheless– quoted the Judge in one of the many questionable lawsuits that Leo Stoller had filed in that district:

                    ”[Leo Stoller] and one or more of his corporate entities have 
                    been involved in at least 49 cases in this district alone. Of
                    these, at least 47 purport to involve trademark infringement.
                    No court has ever found infringement in any trademark
                    allegedly held by Stoller or his companies in any reported
                    opinion.” [Emphasis added.] 
 
Wow. Expert?! Expert!?! Leo Stoller, the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert”? Something doesn’t make sense. A group of federal judges themselves are on record as stating that Leo Stoller had brought 47 trademark infringement cases in the United States Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and, well, the point they seem to be trying to make is that Leo Stoller did not prevail in any of those 47 cases.

To return to our football theme, let’s try to put this into perspective.

In 2008, the Detroit Lions became the first team in the history of the National Football League to play an entire 16-game schedule without a win.
 
When you compare that to Leo Stoller’s record as stated by the Executive Committee for the United States District Court for the Northern District Illinois in its December 15, 2005 blistering citation to Leo Stoller regarding his conduct, the 2008 Detroit Lions don’t seem that inept after all.

Think about it. Leo Stoller, who considers himself the “Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert,” had not prevailed in any of the 47 trademark infringement cases filed in that district.

If Leo Stoller were a football team, he would have endured almost three entire National Football League seasons without a victory. If Leo Stoller could have managed to not prevail in one more trademark case (bringing his record of futility to an even-numbered 48 trademark cases without prevailing), Leo Stoller would have gone exactly three entire 16-game National Football League seasons without a win.

Expert?! Expert!?! Leo Stoller, the ”Nation’s Leading Trademark Expert” ?!?!?!?

Maybe the 2008 Detroit Lions weren’t that terrible after all. Good luck in winning one next year, gentlemen. You too, Leo.
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The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog can be found at http://stollerexposed.blog.com and is dedicated to providing full disclosure about Leo Stoller– who is not an attorney and has a long record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct— yet continues to represent himself to the public as “the nation’s leading trademark expert,” a“legal ethics expert,” and a “intellectual property expert.” The Courts, however, have a far different view of Stoller—they have called him a “vexatious litigant” whose purpose is to “harass legitimate actors for the purpose of extracting a settlement amount,” and have noted that Leo Stoller’s “lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”