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Missing Malaysia plane
Matthew Oxley stands aboard the Australian Navy ship the HMAS Success looking for debris in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 on March 31. (Handout, Reuters /March 31, 2014)
Matthew Oxley stands aboard the Australian Navy ship the HMAS Success looking for debris in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 on March 31. (Handout, Reuters /March 31, 2014)
A Cook County judge has thrown out the first court action filed in connection with the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, calling the filing improper and threatening to impose sanctions against a Chicago-based law firm that has been accused of questionable tactics in the wake of aviation disasters.
Without solid evidence of a crash or wreckage of the jet, Ribbeck Law Chartered said in a petition filed last week that the Beijing-bound Flight 370 had experienced a catastrophic mechanical failure before plunging into the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 passengers and crew on board.
The petition named Malaysia Airlines and Chicago-based Boeing as defendants and sought to preserve evidence in the case and to identify anyone involved in the plane's manufacture and upkeep.
But in dismissing the action, Judge Kathy Flanagan, who oversees all airline-related suits filed in Cook County Circuit Court, said in a four-page ruling filed late Friday that the law allows such filings only when the identity of potential defendants is unknown.
Flanagan noted Ribbeck had filed virtually identical petitions last year after separate fatal airplane crashes in San Francisco and Laos and that she had dismissed them both for the same reason.
"Despite these orders, the same law firm has proceeded, yet again, with the filing of the (Malaysia crash) petition, knowing full well there is no basis to do so," Flanagan wrote.
The judge said if Ribbeck continued to make such filings she "will impose sanctions."
The petition named as plaintiff Dr. Januari Siregar, who was described as the father of missing passenger Firman Chandra Siregar, 24. But the plaintiff has instead turned out to be an uncle at odds with the rest of the family. A spokesman for Siregar's real father told the Tribune in an email Friday that Ribbeck Law had no authorization from him to take legal action in Chicago.
Critics, meanwhile, called the court filing a publicity stunt -- a series of accusations thrown together in order to win the battle for legal business after an air disaster.
Ribbeck's principal attorney, Monica Kelly, was not immediately available for comment. Kelly told reporters in Asia last week that her firm eventually expected to represent families of more than half of those on board the jet that disappeared March 8 over the south Indian Ocean.
The search for possible wreckage was ongoing today.
jmeisner@tribune.com | twitter: @jmetr22b
Without solid evidence of a crash or wreckage of the jet, Ribbeck Law Chartered said in a petition filed last week that the Beijing-bound Flight 370 had experienced a catastrophic mechanical failure before plunging into the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 passengers and crew on board.
The petition named Malaysia Airlines and Chicago-based Boeing as defendants and sought to preserve evidence in the case and to identify anyone involved in the plane's manufacture and upkeep.
Flanagan noted Ribbeck had filed virtually identical petitions last year after separate fatal airplane crashes in San Francisco and Laos and that she had dismissed them both for the same reason.
"Despite these orders, the same law firm has proceeded, yet again, with the filing of the (Malaysia crash) petition, knowing full well there is no basis to do so," Flanagan wrote.
The judge said if Ribbeck continued to make such filings she "will impose sanctions."
The petition named as plaintiff Dr. Januari Siregar, who was described as the father of missing passenger Firman Chandra Siregar, 24. But the plaintiff has instead turned out to be an uncle at odds with the rest of the family. A spokesman for Siregar's real father told the Tribune in an email Friday that Ribbeck Law had no authorization from him to take legal action in Chicago.
Critics, meanwhile, called the court filing a publicity stunt -- a series of accusations thrown together in order to win the battle for legal business after an air disaster.
Ribbeck's principal attorney, Monica Kelly, was not immediately available for comment. Kelly told reporters in Asia last week that her firm eventually expected to represent families of more than half of those on board the jet that disappeared March 8 over the south Indian Ocean.
The search for possible wreckage was ongoing today.
jmeisner@tribune.com | twitter: @jmetr22b
There are going to be cases where good people have totally opposed ideas of what the best course of action is, and the unfortunate result is that each side thinks the other is wicked and cruel.
I used to practice law. Once, when I went to court, some officers of the court thought I was someone that had given Ms. Solo a lot of grief, and it looked like they wanted to take me out and beat me up. In other words, she was very well liked and highly respected in that courtroom.
I'm sorry you experienced the hardship that has resulted in such consuming hatred.
You are a person who is in love with Ms. Solo so therefore any observations or comments that I would make to you would have no effect on your opinion. Granted, your ProbateShark has also suffered hardships in life, both physical, financial and emotional...some of them caused by Ms. Solo and her associates.
That reminds this Shark of a yarn heard in the shark tank about an old hammerhead shark. This hammerhead shark had a habit of eating her own remoras, also known as pilot fish, that guide a nearsighted shark. Sharks can’t eat their own young since they are egg layers. Well this old lady shark kept eating the remoras until all the remoras abandoned her and she led a very lonely and dangerous life. Well, that is just another fish story.
Obviously, the record of Ms. Solo being a party to her family’s exclusion of a disabled brother’s substantial estate sheds a different picture of the same person. A reasonable person would only have to check the court records of the Estate of Irving Fisk Faskowitz to corroborate her notarized signature on the court documents in Sebring, Florida that mentions only four siblings.Mordy was excluded. Moreover, comments of the Florida AG stated that they felt that Ms. Solo or her siblings did not have a right to the half of the Irving Faskowitz Estate not yet dispersed.
One would examine her involvement with the “Estate of Alice R. Gore”, a 99 year old disabled ward of the Probate Court of Cook County. Ms. Solo was knowingly responsible for electing a mentally ill person who had been a resident in 54 specialized mental health placements as guardian for Alice R. Gore. This “guardian” was court adjudicated as borderline psychotic, “a person who is a danger to herself and others”... Does this appear to be the act of a “ameliorate the suffering of others” or “intentionally caused any innocent person to suffer”. As far as “ has not enriched herself, as others in her field have.”...just check the dispersal checks for tens of thousands of dollars payed from the Estate of Alice R. Gore to Ms. Solo to refute that statement. If Alice were alive and lucid today she certainly would question the veracity of Ms. Solo’s decision.
As far as “she was very well liked and highly respected in that courtroom” just refer to the paucity of GAL selections by probate judges that she has received since 2010...not as many as before, for sure. Speaking of judges, two probate court judges have been mysteriously removed from the court within the last couple of months, one of whom was a “supporter” of Ms. Solo.
Barzilai, included in the Irving Fisk Faskowitz Estate file is information from private detectives who gleaned many confidential files that I am sure you have never been apprised of. These of course are only available to law enforcement and are not suitable or appropriate for dissemination in a public blog. The ProbateSharks and ProbateSharkettes appreciate your commentary into the ProbateSharks.com blog. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com