That is Judge Blanche M. Manning [(312)435-7608]. Among these, she has assigned to her, by apparent RANDOM MAGIC, the case of Robert E. Kolody vs. Simon Marketing and The Coca-Cola Company, No. 97 C 190.
For a number of years Kolody planned to sue Coke for stealing his intellectual property, designs he made for them. Kolody's confidant, who befriended him over the years and insinuated himself into the matter for some 10 years has been a local lawyer who was always sympathetic to Kolody's grievances against Coca-Cola and their adjunct, Simon Marketing.
When Kolody retained an out-of-state attorney from Arkansas to represent him in 1998, the rules required the designation of an additional lawyer as "local counsel". That trusted "local counsel" was Kolody's long-time confidant Daniel V. Hanley, [(708)474-6633], of the Chicago suburb of Lansing, Illinois.
All of Kolody's legal strategies and plans and those of his Arkansas lawyer, Dan Ivy, were discussed in confidence with Daniel V. Hanley. But strange things were happening. Coke's lawyers seemed to be able to "beat to the punch" Kolody and Dan Ivy, that is, heading off Kolody and Ivy's legal strategies which, of course, are confidential and not to be divulged by his "local counsel" Daniel V. Hanley.
And Judge Blanche M. Manning arrogantly committed judicial perjuries, which some common people call straight out lies about what this copyright case was all about. The Judge evidently knew that she did not have to be careful. She refused to wipe out her judicial perjuries when confronted by Dan Ivy.
As an electronic journalist, on May 18,2000, I attended a hearing before Judge Manning when she failed to do anything about her judicial perjuries in the Coca-Cola case.
Afterwards elsewhere in the courthouse in the presence of Ivy, I interviewed Daniel V. Hanley:
"Skolnick: What sort of law work do you do, Mr. Hanley?
Daniel V. Hanley: General.
Skolnick: As you know I do for many years now a Cable TV Show each week.
Hanley: Yes, I know.
Skolnick: Do Coca-Cola and their attorneys know the legal strategy of Robert Kolody and his attorney Dan Ivy here?
Hanley: Yes.
Skolnick: Really? How could they know?
Hanley: My sister is the media buyer for Coca-Cola.
Skolnick: What does she do?
Hanley: She has been with a New York firm and now is in Chicago.
Skolnick: What firm is she with?
Hanley: (looked at Skolnick but did not answer.)
Skolnick: Do you think putting Bob here on my TV program about Coca-Cola would do any good?
Hanley: No.
Skolnick: So your sister understands all about this case?
Hanley: Yes.
Whereupon, Daniel V. Hanley left and Skolnick spoke to Dan Ivy:
Skolnick: Did you hear what Hanley volunteered as a statement? (Kolody had come over to the table and heard the portion, he said, of the colloquy where Daniel V. Hanley said his sister is media buyer for Coca-Cola.)
Dan Ivy: Yes, and we are shocked.
Skolnick: Well, this needs further investigation now that he volunteered this statement."
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