SLRC's Response to DuPont's Strong-Arm Tactics

SLRC, Inc.
P.O. Box 1235
Black Mountain, NC 28711
www.slrc-csa.org

November 6, 2003

Mr. Niall A. Paul, Esq.
Mr. James S. Crockett, Jr., Esq.
Per Facsimile Transmission: 304-340-3800
Mr. Jonathan P. Harmon, Esq.
Mr. Robert F. Holland, Esq.

Per Facsimile Transmission: 804-225-5412

Re: Kevin L. Chaplin, et al., v. DuPont; in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, CA: 3:03-CV-469

Gentlemen:

I have consulted with my clients regarding the contents of Mr. Paul’s October 13, 2003 epistle to me, wherein he promises to pursue Rule 11 sanctions against me if I do not withdraw the Complaint and First Amended Complaint filed in the above styled case by today. The following is submitted:

Confederate Southern Americans are a unique people requiring and deserving legal protection and recognition.

The Confederate Battle flag is a venerated symbol of my clients’ ancestries and a venerated icon of their Christian religious faith.

Your client has stigmatized my clients’ as racists. DuPont’s ban of Confederate symbols has heightened, not lessened racial tensions at the DuPont plant.

Your client’s bully tactics and threats to scare off any available local counsel will not change the above facts.

The pre-trial wrangling over local counsel in this case proves how desperately Confederate Southern Americans are in need of legal protection in America today.

I have the honor to inform you that I will not accommodate you in regard to your request that I withdraw the Amended Complaint.

Sincerely,

Kirk D. Lyons
Pro Hac Vice Attorney
For the Plaintiffs

Cc:

Kevin L. Chaplin
James Philip Jones
Robert Coleman Lewis
Marvin L. Oliver
Lynn Eugene Ritenour
David Eugene Rowlette
Stephen Jackson Turley