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Junior Member
What is the name of your state?
New Jersey

I just finished a case in which I was the defendent. There was a judgement entered
against me. To raise money to pay the judgement and show everyone how the system works, I would like to open a web site and post all the case documents, my parents' wills, depositions, motions, oral argument transcripts, letters from the attorneys to each other containing promisses which were not kept, trial transcripts etc. The probate division judge of superior court appointed an executor who is a municipal court judge whose brother is also a superior court judge in the same court as the appointing judge. The executor judge sued me and the trial took place in that superior court of the appointing judge and judge brother of the executor, but was heard by a different judge. I know I was D.O.A. People would pay to read the docs and participate in the forum.

1) Is there any liability from defamation claims. These documents are in my possession, I would not delete or hide real names.
2) Is this any different than writting a book and reprinting the actual docs,
 
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You Are Guilty

Senior Member
Generally speaking, anything from the court file is a public record and may be published. If there are documents in your possession, not authored by you, which are not in the court file, there may be issues with publishing them (no way to know without seeing them). However, just because you "can" publish them doesn't mean someone won't sue you anyway, so be prepared for that eventuality.

Speaking from the other side, a pro se plaintiff in one of my old cases started a (free) web site doing exactly as you've described. However, rather than make a motion to the court to stop him, once I found out, I just started adding things in my letters to him which were embarassing for him to publish (i.e. all the bad things he had done). Shortly thereafter, the letters were no longer being published on the site & problem solved :)
 

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