Waiting for the memorendum of judge meachum, here is a wikipedia page titled Personal jurisdiction in Internet cases in the United States cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_in_Internet_cases_in_the_United_States and here is another one on Personal jurisdiction cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction#Modern_Constitutional_Doctrine:_International_Shoe_Doctrine

hope it will help

If you do not want to visit B.D.'s site, the order of Judge Meachum can be read here : http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/06/wakefieldorder.pdf

Sharing this amazing and eye opening Canadian Documentary on Shaken Baby Syndrome -

View the movie online here http://vimeo. com/35041114
enter the password
shakenbabydiagnosis

there will be justice for all the families, MSBP and vaccine-injured, Vitamin C and D deficient and other conditions babies who died and their loved ones unjustly persecuted.

Texas in Fielding v. Hubert Burda Media

I just read a little it sounds like some model from Texas married a German big shot and lived in Europe and was sueing a magazine company in New York.

Where as Dr. Wakefield a political refuge settled in Texas, even working at Thoughtful House on sick children's GI tracks same political stuff he had to leave Britian for. Children that no one would look at; when the BMJ attacked him - in his home state.

I am sure that if they look around enough there will be magazines written/published up by local doctors as is the case at University of Kentucky - using local big shot docs head of the pediatric department -- on the issues of vaccines - saying how safe they are and how Dr. Wakefield is a fraudster and it has been proven and quoting the British Medical Journal.

All these sitting on tables of people waiting to see some medical, doctor's, and medical lab persons.

Propoganda and lies sitting under their noses published falsehoods by the very society that these patients are suppose to put thier trust in and submit their bodies to them.

Seems a little more personal and close up and much more local than some model in Germany sueing some magazine in New York.

Jake must have hit a very large nerve. The vaccine industry’s friends and minions are now retaliating online, targeting his family. A Saltzman & Johnson attorney has taken to disparaging Jake's mother’s Austin-based business as well as his recently deceased grandfather – a long-time Austin resident. Neither his mother's business nor his grandfather have any remote connection to the controversy. This attorney levels her personal attacks at a deceased man and a small business owner with the obvious intent of attempting to silence Jake.

This reflects very poorly on Saltzman & Johnson Law Corporation which should become more aware of its attorneys' extra-curricular internet activities.

Lisa Blakemore-Brown and all who have been falsely accused of 'cot death or MMSB P', I just want to say how sorry I am for what those so called medical professionals did to your families- it's absolutely horrific and shameful on their part. I saw a program about it awhile ago (W-5) and thankfully some of the cases were re-opened with very different conclusions. Thank you for your strength and keep talking!

Thank you Godfrey Wyl
Benedetta - Mr Wyl was referring to what is known in legal terms as a 'precedent'. In this case how to interpret Rule 120a of The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.

Apparently the plaintiff has to show a 'Texas' connection in his/her legal writ against the defendants. It is not enough to prove the defendants may have business interests within the state.
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/files/09-20625-cv0.wpd-1-1.pdf

"Judge Amy Meacham's decisions are published here. She does not give any specific reasons for her verdicts"

That would not normally be part of an order. Perhaps a memorandum decision will follow. The mere existence of subscribers isn't enough to establish personal jurisdiction, though; this was settled for good with respect to Texas in Fielding v. Hubert Burda Media.

To Mark Struthers : the link you mention refers to a page that was primarily published in vactruth ( cf http://vactruth.com/2012/01/03/foi-request-reveals-major-vaccine-conspiracy/ - I do add this just because I don't like the photo displaid by the gaïa site ;) ) Christina England also write on this site : http://medicalmisdiagnosisresearch.wordpress.com/ [ don't understand if it is her own site or not !?]

That A. Wakefield authored a book on MSBP ( Publication Date: May 1, 2012 ) could explain why Brian Morgan did pay a visit to AoA .

To Beth - and others- : in 2010, a leo wrote "Amy Clark Meachum is a partner in a politically connected Austin law firm." see : http://www.burntorangereport.com/showComment.do?commentId=54872 [ I guess you should read "democrat connected" since her husband is very influencial among the democrats in that state ]. PolitiFactTexas has dedicated a page on Amy Clark Meachum ...that has not been feeded yet ...as had Judgepedia : http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Amy_Clark_Meachum

To Jake : what about the written decision of the judge - can't finf it yet ; or am I ....?-

To benedetta ,Spooky

"hate posts began to be posted on the Internet site Mothers against Munchausen Allegations (MAMA). This was highly unusual as the site was aimed at supporting mothers who found themselves falsely accused of MSBP. These posts referred to Ms Blakemore-Brown as being unprofessional and a danger to children, some even indicating that she was mad using phrasing such as ‘barking mad’ or ‘paranoid’. At around this time Ms Blakemore-Brown also began to get abusive emails, Ms Blakemore-Brown says that one in particular she remembers was from a Ms Penny Mellor, a campaigner and one of the main contributors to the MAMA board, according to Ms Blakemore-Brown this email was extremely hurtful stating in capitols ‘ UNDERSTAND THIS – YOU ARE IRRELEVANT’ then about Ms Blakemore-Brown’s book she had added ‘Tapestry? Weaving? More like basket case!!!!‘ . Shortly after losing her home due to legal costs from the first hearing, Ms Blakemore-Brown managed at last to set up her dream unit, ‘The Tapestry Life Centre’, at the Brunel University in London to support and aid children with autism. This was to be one of the first of its kind but within days of the news of the Centre being made public, the MAMA website, became littered with posts containing the most dreadful slander and libel, sneering at her efforts and asking where the money came from." cf http://medicalmisdiagnosisresearch.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/the-professional-assassination-of-autism-expert-lisa-blakemore-brown/

to Spooky : I have no access to http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/scientology-gmc-internal-communications.html ; scientology or not she does not appear to be a sympathetic person according to the above written testimony

To Lisa Blakemore-Brown : when struggling with/against Dr Southall, did you encouter Brian Morgan ? Would you say a word on your feeling concerning him ( I could understand you may not wish to express your mind publicly on such a subject )

Interesting coincidence: isn't it slowly coming to light that shaken baby syndrome might sometimes instead actually be undiagnosed rickets, a D3 deficiency? And hasn't the introduction of vitamin C in the vaccinated aboriginal population been claimed to take the rate of SIDS from 50% to pretty much "0?"
These are two of the most attacked supplements, makes me wonder why big pharma is so keen to denigrate them. Yet if they are helpful in preventing those illnesses and deaths, and those illnesses and deaths were increased due to vaccinations, wouldn't it be logical for someone trying to make vaccines safer and more trusted, for instance a pediatrician, to recommend a D3 and vitamin C test prior to giving vaccines?

David Southall did the vaccine trials using various sources including siblings of children who died after a vaccine. Sally Clarks second child was in such a scheme. Called CONI - Care of the next infant - children whose siblings had died would be monitored and to my certain knowledge some were taken in for more vaccines. Sallys Harry had his five hours before he died yet he was on a CONI scheme. Karen Brenchleys Simon was vaccinated 24 hours before he died and had been placed on a CONI scheme after his brother Michael had died after a vaccine. Suzanne Wilsons identical twin girls were taken straight from her at 26 weeks gestation to be in a Southall study. Years later when she couldnt cope with their brain damaged behavioue she threatened to sue. They all found themselves accused of MSBP and caught in the Meadow Southall web.

Why did judge Meachum not recuse herself from the case? Does she have a history of conduct that is unbecoming of a judge, or is this her first misstep?

With such a glaring conflict of interest, it's hard to imagine why she would remain the presiding judge on the case.

So Jenny
Brian Morgan was involved in trying to help these parents accused of killing their kids, untill - the reason for the babies' death started pointing to vaccinations; and then he less than helpful?
Southall, was what in this case? How was he involved if at all?

What is a cot death?

Lisa Blakemore-Brown - Bless you, and all the others who have taken on cruel 'establishments' in David v Goliath conflicts. Attempting to stand up for truth and justice was at considerable cost to yourself, but you have survived with your honour and integrity intact and you are a hero. Poor Sally Clark died broken hearted, of alcohol poisoning; drink was her only comfort. Roy Meadows picked his Munchausen by proxy statistics 'out of thin air' to get her convicted of killing her babies. It reminds me of Paul Offit's ridiculous assertion that newborns could cope with 100,000 vaccines administered simultaneously. Incidently, both Clark babies died shortly after receiving vaccines.

From Wikipedia:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

"Clark's first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in 1996. After her second son died in a similar manner, she was arrested in 1998 and tried for the murder of both sons. Her prosecution was controversial due to statistical evidence presented by pediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million, which was arrived at by squaring 1 in 8500 for likelihood of a cot death in similar circumstance. The Royal Statistical Society later issued a public statement expressing its concern at the "misuse of statistics in the courts" and arguing that there was "no statistical basis" for Meadow's claim."

To Spooky : I am of opinion that caution would be utmost welcome before circulating such unchecked information as the one you wrote about P. Mellor . You are not without knowing that the accusation of belonging to a sect is an argument often used by Offit&Co against those opposing - some or all - vaccinations .

"Texas has a whorehouse in it! Lord have mercy on our souls!"

“You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God!) the British journalist.
But when you see what he will do
Unbribed, there’s no occasion to."

Humbert Wolfe (poet, and senior Britsh civil servant
1885–1940).

Fever;
The last two post of yours, makes it sound even worse than Jake Crosby reported it.

12,000 dollars is not a small amount but -- not enough to sell the safty of children down the road.

But it sounds more like the man is a idealist when it comes to eradicating infectious diseases.

Which is how come we are all in this mess to begin with.
We have idealist where we should have had pure science.

[sorry again ] "TAFP is a member of the Texas Immunization Stakeholder Working Group, a coalition of public sector, private sector, and community groups. TISWG was formulated as a recommendation of various studies and legislation passed by the 78th Legislature to increase partnerships across the state to raise vaccine coverage levels and improve immunization practices for all Texans." http://www.tafp.org/membership/giving-back/coalitions http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/partners/tiswg.shtm

Amy Meachum pitching to become a judge in Travis County on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PdKC5JOeE&feature=endscreen&NR=1

"Kurt Meachum has spent the past decade working at the highest levels of state government for
some of the best and brightest Democrats in Texas. In 1998, Meachum moved to Austin from
Dallas to work the 76th Legislative Session for then State Representative Steve Wolens (D-Dallas),
Chairman of the powerful House Committee on State Affairs. Meachum spent the 77th, 78th and 79th
Legislative Sessions leading the office of State Rep. Pete P. Gallego (D-Alpine).

Under the Chairmanship of House Democratic Leader, Jim Dunnam, (D-Waco), Meachum became
the first Executive Director of the House Democratic Campaign Committee. In addition to
consulting for the Texas Progress Council, Meachum has also advised the Mexican American
Legislative Caucus.

Meachum graduated from Southern Methodist University, where he earned a full-tuition Presidential
Scholarship. More recently, he earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs
School of Business. He lives in Austin with his wife, Amy Clark Meachum, their twin daughters,
Allie and Kendall, and son Benjamin. In 2010, Amy was elected to serve a four year term as
District Judge for the 201st Civil District Court in Travis County." see : http://philipsmeachum.com/about/

Mellor and Morgan seem to have been very assiduous at trashing connections between alleged SBS and vaccine damage.

To Benedetta : You wrote "Brian Morgan was after this one doctor Southall, and he was able to get someone hired or that was hired to sneak out children's medical records ". This is not exactly what I understood from http://www.thejournalist.org.uk/NovDec09/P_morgan.html where you can read "In 1996, a campaigner working undercover for David Southall copied and circulated secret medical files she had found and Brian Morgan was sent copies. "

B. Morgan 's work could have something in common with AoA - since Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy ,which B. Morgan is contesting the too wide use of, has often been used against innocent parents whose Child may have died ...as a consequence of a vaccination [ a fact I am not sure B.Morgan would recognise - but he will perhaps speak his mind on this page ]. But considering what Penny Mellor wrote on A. Wakefield on his blog... I can understand John Stone reaction .

Brian Deer,
Brian Morgan
are going to wear out the good name of Brian,
my husband and my 6 foot 5 inch red neck cousin.

Thanks Fever for the information.

But I am a little confused.
Brian Morgan was after this one doctor Southall, and he was able to get someone hired or that was hired to sneak out children's medical records - and Brian Morgans' own two children's names were said to be on a list that was in a hospital - and so Brian Morgan said Southall had falsified records???
I am not even close to understaning am I?

to Brian: Sorry I missed this : http://www.blogger.com/profile/05666000459948733548 "This journalist does investigations into medico-legal situations, especially those involving child protection and social work issues. He has been a freelance journalist since the mid eighties, has always been independent of publishing groups and in 2006 was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Union of Journalists in the UK."

They play dirty: it was always going to be difficult fighting the drug cartels. Kudos to AW for standing up to them.

I do not appreciate the way the comments of Brian Morgan are... being commented . [ or I missed something : has B. Morgan written on the subject before ?]. You may find that his comment does not tackle the main point of Jacke Crosby's article - which raises a very important question - . So what ? It is true that A. Wakefield did not communicate much about his not appealing the decision of the GMC . As J. Stone puts it, I have no reason to put the reasons given for this decision into question . Nevertheless it is a fact that nothing much was said or written about it . I would be very interested to know how much money it costs to appeal a decision of the GMC : B. Morgan could be of some help ? Concerning the facts unearthed by Jake : how is it that the attorney(s) of A. Wakefield did not raise this ? Was he not aware of this conflict of interest ? Did he consider inappropriate to use that point ? Could someone ask him ?( B. Morgan ....? ) Sincerly yours ( from France - Europe -)

Mr. Morgan,

I second that your hometown is of little significance. Besides your on twitter and you have your hometown listed for everyone to see.
Those of us that read Jake Crosby's work are not a threat to you. It is just nice to see some real investigative work being done.

As we know all-to-well, the bad guys are everywhere and deeply entrenched. It just reinforces the notion that the systems and institutions are fundamentally, systemically broken, corrupted and undeserving of any trust, or respect.

Again, brilliant work! Nothing like a Pharma lawyer in a robe!

Brian

No, we don't often get the open attention of British journalists here, so it is worth remarking on - but perhaps you also deserve credit for commenting under your own name. Obviously, we have often encountered one another in cyberspace, so I pointed it out as context (not in itself an attack).

Also, you have ignored the main (disturbing) substance of the article and focussed on a red-herring: I don't suppose I do have any documentary evidence that AW was denied insurance cover but it has often been said, and I don't have any serious reason to doubt it.

I neglected to mention in my previous comment that the American College of Physicians (Texas Chapter) is also listed on the Texas Tribune Lobbyists Directory as one of Judge Meachum's husband's clients. This client puts up to $10,000 in her and her husband's bank account.

So that makes TWO of his clients that contribute to their joint income who actively promote the current vaccine schedule, with ACP spreading the false accusations about Wakefield that originated with Brian Deer - one of the defendants in the case she just threw out!

ACP EVEN PROMOTES THE BMJ ARTICLE BY BRIAN DEER "How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed" in the very first sentence of its article posted earlier:

http://blog.acpinternist.org/2011/01/three-take-home-lessons-from-wakefields.html

If Wakefield wins his appeal, these facts demand Judge Meachum's recusal.

Section 455, captioned "Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge," provides that a federal judge "shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned." The same section also provides that a judge is disqualified "where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding"; when the judge has previously served as a lawyer or witness concerning the same case or has expressed an opinion concerning its outcome; OR WHEN THE JUDGE OR A MEMBER OF HIS OR HER IMMEDIATE FAMILY HAS A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THE OUTCOME OF THE PROCEEDING.

(caps added)

Jake,you are a bloodhound!!
More on Alison Singer:-
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111102/full/479028a.html
(Autism's fight for facts: A voice for science)

Singer resigned from the charity ‘Autism Speaks’ in a huff, because at that time the charity was still sponsoring research into possible vaccine autism links. Singer devoted herself to promoting immunisations, setting up the ‘Autism Science Foundation’ charity. From above:-

“Convinced by the evidence that vaccines do not cause autism, Alison Singer started a research foundation that pledges to put science first……..Singer had followed the growing number of studies that debunked any link between autism and the once-suspect measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or between autism and thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that was used in some early-childhood vaccines until 2001. For the past several years, she says, the data have been very clear. "There were no studies indicating a link between autism and vaccines."
On ASF funding:-
“(A significant amount has also come from large donors, including Offit, who has donated all the royalties from the sales of his books challenging the anti-vaccine movement to ASF — an amount he estimates in tens of thousands of dollars.) Singer does not think that her opposition to vaccine research limits the group's ability to raise funds —far from it. She says the organization has mobilized the thousands of families who were sick of the autism story being hijacked by the vaccine hypothesis. "ASF is their voice."

Jake

It is amazing isn't it? First of all we had Mr Justice Davis with his unnoticed family connections sitting on the Appeal against Legal Service Commission's decision to withdraw funding from the UK MMR case (simultaneous with Deer's original allegations:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/01/sir-crispin-davis-and-james-murdoch-no-longer-on-gsk-board.html

Then we had Prof McDevitt who sat on the UK committee examining adverse reactions to vaccines (ARVI) in 1988 when MMR was introduced who was forced to withdraw from presiding over the GMC hearing against Wakefield and colleagues when his conflict was exposed, who was then, of course, replaced by Surendra Kumar who after the hearing started disclosed he was on the UK Committee on Safety of Medicines from 1996-9, but also failed to disclosed his ownership of GSK shares, as well as leading a debate afterwards at the British Medical Council calling for MMR to be made compulsory.

Then, of course, there was Lord Justice Leveson and Robert Jay QC (who were also embroiled in the MMR litigation) refusing to investigate complaints about Deer and the Sunday Times at the leve3son Inquiry:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/06/uks-leveson-plays-cat-and-mouse-with-public-interest-over-murdoch-mmr-investigation.html

And now we have this.

There's famous anecdote from a British legal history. An witness(expert?) was asked by the attorney:

Q If you were walking down a street and a brick fell on your head what would you think of it?

A I would think it unfortunate?

Q And if you were walking down the same street and a brick landed on your head again, what would you say?

A I would call it a coincidence.

Q And if it happened a third time?

A I should call it a habit.

I think this was always considered to be a masterpiece of British understatement.

This has now happened, of course, somewhat more than three times.

John

Brian Morgan

AW was denied funding by the insurers - this is wellknown. My own view is, at least retrospectively, is that the defence was conducted in too gentlemanly a fashion and this damaged the prospect for an appeal. It is evident from the High Court ruling by Mr Justice Mitting - and evident to many of us before - that many of the GMC's findings were completely erroneous, and that what wasn't true about Prof Walker-Smith the lead clinician in the Wakefield Lancet paper could not be true about Wakefield either. If the GMC were an honourable body, they would at least endeavour to correct those findings against AW and Simon Murch where the evidence was invalidated by the Walker-Smith appeal.

But the basic point that AW was denied funding is no mystery.

Despite repeated requests, to AW personally by myself and more generally to people who might have inside information, no reason has ever been given for not AW not appealing the GMC findings. He does not have to offer any explanation. But those who repeatedly say he would win if he did appeal (out of time is not impossible) should really give some substantive reasons. A successful appeal by another litigant does not really stand up (but IANAL of course so I defer to better qualified commentators).

Jake could you, please, clarify your statement that Dr. Wakefield is appealing? Is he appealing the General Medical Counsel's findings in the UK,as John-Walker Smith did, or the libel case in TX....or both?