Current Events > Milo Yiannopoulos to represent himself in suit against publisher, drops lawyers.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/milo-yiannopoulos-dumped-own-attorneys-simon-schuster-case

Milo Yiannopoulos lawyers will no longer represent the far-right provocateur in his $10 million breach-of-contract suit against publishing giant Simon & Schuster.

In a Monday filing in New York State Supreme Court, Stephen Meister and Jeffrey Weingart of Manhattan firm Meister Seelig & Fein formally announced that they were withdrawing as counsel for Yiannopoulos.

In a previous filing, Weingart attributed the split to a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship, citing Yiannopoulos insistence on pursuing actions with which his attorneys had a fundamental disagreement. Weingart also cited irreconcilable differences between attorney and client which he said he could not expand on because of confidentiality concerns.

Last February, after videos emerged in which Yiannopoulos appeared during an interview to condone pedophilia, Simon & Schuster canceled Yiannopoulos $225,000 contract for his autobiography Dangerous. Yiannopoulos sued the publisher in July, claiming breach of contract.

In a statement provided to TPM, Yiannopoulos blamed Simon & Schusters discovery tactics for the rupture with his lawyers, claiming the publisher tried to shield documents pertinent to his case form him and from the public.

I will now be representing myself pro se, so I can directly see the material Yiannopoulos said in the statement. I look forward to revealing Simon & Schusters perfidy in court.

In late December, Simon & Schuster filed court documents that included the draft of the manuscript turned in by Yiannopoulos, marked up with scathing notes from editor Mitchell Ivers. The documents were offered to explain why the publisher backed out of the project.

In an affidavit, Ivers called the draft superficial and non-substantive.

I'm ready for the winning to continue.
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poor boi has been trying so hard to get people to start paying attention to him after his alt right compadres turned him into a non-person
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I remember a year or so ago, listening to some of his talks at universities that got so much protest. I actually thought they were kind of enjoyable sometimes.

Of course, he was right. All the protesting in the world did nothing to hurt him. It just gave him more attention. It was letting him speak so that he could say something unforgivable on a sympathetic livestream that did him in.
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I hope he fails miserably.
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Looks like he just lost the case.
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Let's see what he had to say about it on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Nero
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Canning your lawyers and representing yourself is such a stupendously bad idea it leads me to think he knows this case is hopeless and he just wants to ring as much press out of it as possible.

Either that or he's just going even more off the rails.
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Doom_Art posted...

Let's see what he had to say about it on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Nero

Laughed.
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