The school scholar who obtained a stop and desist from Taylor Swift for monitoring her personal jet ain’t sweating a authorized battle together with her, ‘trigger he thinks she’ll balk … so says his lawyer.
James Slater, the lawyer for Jack Sweeney, tells TMZ … he and his companions do not see any real looking authorized path for T-Swift and her attorneys to take in the event that they wanna press this jet difficulty.
Now, Slater does say if there was any motion from Taylor’s facet — specifically, a lawsuit of some kind — Sweeney’s crew would instantly reply with an anti-SLAPP movement … a legislation that gives defendants a option to dismiss meritless lawsuits shortly.
JS provides to us the letter from Tay Tay’s lawyer, Kate Wright Morrone, had little authorized substance, from his POV, and her assertation Jack dedicated stalking and harassing conduct by exhibiting TS’s flight path to the world was completely unfounded within the eyes of the legislation.
He principally blasts the entire thing as a giant scare tactic … asserting the whole lot that wanted to be addressed was written within the letter he despatched to Swift’s crew — and that nothing else actually must be talked about to make their level. Backside line … Sweeney ain’t scared!
Fast recap … issues took off when TS’ attorneys issued a legal threat to Sweeney in December, warning him that if he did not cease placing their well-known shopper’s security in imminent hazard, he’d be topic to additional authorized motion.
However Slater retaliated last month … saying Taylor’s camp cited no legislation supporting the stop and desist — whereas additionally rebuffing the stalking claims … saying it would not apply to his shopper in any respect since Sweeney has by no means made a “credible threat” towards Taylor by way of his phrases or actions.
He additionally identified the apparent … Sweeney merely uploaded publicly out there knowledge from the Federal Aviation Administration to trace Taylor’s aircraft actions — some extent backed by aviation lawyer Tim Loranger of Wisner Baum, who tells us this has been a longtime pastime for aviation buffs … insisting there is not any there-there to threaten a lawsuit or any authorized motion.
Loranger tells TMZ that whether or not plane homeowners prefer it or not … their planes and jets should be registered with the FAA and their registration numbers are displayed on their plane’s facet … making it fairly simple to be adopted on flight monitoring companies.
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We spoke to some extra authorized specialists who weighed in on Swift vs. Sweeney — and never everybody thinks he is within the clear. Civil lawyer Tre Lovell of The Lovell Agency tells us that until Sweeney can clearly describe the aim for his actions … he’d recommend Sweeney treads very fastidiously shifting ahead.
In distinction, Camron Dowlatshahi of Mills Sadat Dowlat LLP says TS has no authorized standing on this matter — however the one factor she’s obtained is a complete lotta $$$ to bury JS in authorized charges — so, backside line, he ought to in all probability watch his again.
Backside line … extra folks appear to assume Jack’s A-OK to maintain monitoring … ball’s in his court docket.