{"id":28786,"date":"2012-03-02T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28786"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T01:52:40","slug":"terry-snow-pushes-back-on-15-5-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28786","title":{"rendered":"Snow Pushes Back On $15 Million Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31, 2012 a jury in Pinellas County, Florida reportedly awarded Internet Businessman <strong>Mark J. Horne<\/strong> a $15.5 million judgement in his lawsuit against <strong>World Publications<\/strong> and co-defendants <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonniercorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnier Corp<\/a><\/strong>. and CEO  <strong>Terry Snow <\/strong>for breach of contract after Horne sold his company <strong>Nautical Solutions Marketing Inc<\/strong>. to World Publications in 2004,  according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradeonlytoday.com\/home\/518977-bonnier-seeks-mistrial-in-nautical-solutions-case\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Only Today<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Snow is pushing back on the judgement in the most creative way possible&#8211;his lawyer has filed motions for &#8220;mistrial alleging, among other things, juror misconduct and prejudicial comments by the attorney for plaintiff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the defendants\u2019 post-trial motions, filed Feb. 10, are allegations that Horne\u2019s attorney commented on something the judge talked about outside the presence of the jury; told the jury that Snow would be indemnified against any judgment (in other words, his insurance company would pay the damages); vouched for the credibility of witnesses; called defense witnesses liars; and instructed the jury in a theory of damages that the judge himself refused to talk about, said the defendants\u2019 Orlando, Fla., attorney, Michael Crosbie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story it would appear that a judge has already &#8220;ruled on the juror misconduct motion Feb. 28 and denied a request for a mistrial.&#8221; For those not following along, World Publications was the company that purchased <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Media<\/a><\/strong> and then became Bonnier USA, Transworld&#8217;s parent company. Those who are at all interested in the media business should click the link and read the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradeonlytoday.com\/home\/518977-bonnier-seeks-mistrial-in-nautical-solutions-case\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Only Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31, 2012 a jury in Pinellas County, Florida reportedly awarded Internet Businessman Mark J. Horne a $15.5 million judgement in his lawsuit against World Publications and co-defendants Bonnier Corp. and CEO Terry Snow for breach of contract after Horne sold his company Nautical Solutions Marketing Inc. to World Publications in 2004, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28803,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions\/28803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}