McDade Has Been In Trouble Before
We have been pointed to an opinion from the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in a sexual harassment case filed against the subject our earlier post, Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, back in 1999. (See Lewis et. al. v. McDade, 54 F.Supp.2d 1332 (1999)). The descriptions of the allegedly harassing behavior in the opinion are classic. Here a few choice samples:
Defendant McDade would tell a woman employee to walk down the hall so that he could watch her walk from behind. … On occasion, he made comments about Plaintiff Lewis’ legs and that her dress was a “turn-on.” … Defendant McDade also shot rubber bands at the breasts and buttocks of the female employees. … Defendant McDade lifted the suit jacket of Plaintiff Gerstenberger and looked and pointed at her buttocks. … On an occasion when a man was being prosecuted who had obtained a penile implant, Defendant McDade carried the implant around the office proclaiming he was larger than the implant.
For those too lazy to look up the citation, there are more samples after the jump.
As an aside, we also found this funny:
[As an initial matter, the Court denies Defendant McDade’s Motion to Exceed Page Limit. Defendant McDade has had three prior opportunities to brief the issues in the motion for summary judgment. Defendant filed a brief of 50 pages in support of the motion for summary judgment [84-1], a brief of 25 pages in reply to Plaintiffs’ responsive brief [92-1], and a brief of 22 pages in support of his objections to the Report and Recommendation [109-1]. Defendant McDade now requests permission to file a 67 page brief in response to Plaintiffs’ objections to the Report and Recommendation [115-1]. A review of the proposed brief shows that substantial portions of it are simply restatements of arguments presented in prior briefs. It is the filing of briefs such as the one submitted by Defendant McDade which the Local Rule is intended to prevent. Therefore, Defendant McDade’s Motion to Exceed Page Limit [116-1] is DENIED. The Court will not consider the brief for purposes of this Order.
He never quite gets tired of making his point.
Defendant McDade also used language and conduct which, while not sexual in nature, was demeaning and abusive toward females. … When she told Defendant McDade what had occurred, he pounded his fist on the desk and said, “What in the hell did I tell you to do with the goddamn mother fucking book!?” When Plaintiff tried to explain that Detective Brumbalow had taken the book from her and placed it on Detective Shaddix’s desk, Defendant stated, “Does Brumbalow sign your goddamn paycheck?” Plaintiff started trembling and was speechless. … When females would ask for time off for medical reasons, Defendant routinely stated that the employee was “having her annual nervous breakdown,” or “sunbathing on the deck,” or “PMS’ing.” … ). When women employees would ask for a second of Defendant McDade’s time, he would often say “not unless you’ve got an empty pocket, I gotta pee!” … During her first few days, Defendant McDade came into the secretaries’ office and demanded loudly that he wanted somebody to “pick up this file” and do the work required. He then dropped the file in the middle of the floor and all three (3) secretaries immediately went to their knees to retrieve the file. … Defendant McDade referred to women in the following terms: “that bitch,” “blonde,” “friggin idiot,” “hysterical,” “whiney,” “squalling,” “my baby,” “a honey,” “fucking bitch,” “feather head,” “bazumbas,” “stupid bitch,” “whoa baby!” He used these terms in reference to women lawyers, women in the District Attorney’s and Clerk’s offices, women victims, and women members of victims’ families. … Defendant McDade referred to employee Rita Fitzpatrick as a “bleach blonde,” “a hypochondriac,” “money grubber,” and a “hysterical female.” … On two occasions, Defendant McDade hit Plaintiff Carver. On the first occasion, he hit her in the presence of the head of the Council on Battered Women in Atlanta. Defendant McDade said he did it to see what the reaction of the Director of the Council on Battered Women would be. Plaintiff Carver was shocked and did not laugh or think the matter was a joke.
Classy dude.
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Comments
Do you actually do any work for your clients Billy?
Preceding those "facts" is the following language:
"The Magistrate Judge has reviewed this conduct in detail in the Report and Recommendation which is incorporated herein. However, a brief summary of that evidence, construed in a light most favorable to Plaintiffs, follows."
this is all a big misunderstunding. This guy is crude, but well meaning, and just needs a lesson in etiquette. Not a big deal when considered in context.
He doesn't have any clients. If you do an "ALLCASES" search for "william /2 merck", you won't find any indication that this guy even exists, despite his contention on his website that "the Law Offices of William R. Merck [is] a law firm specializing in legal research and writing and appellate law."
but I saw a picture on billy's website of him going to court to argue for his clients.
Oh wait, upon further inspection - that is a really blurry picture of Billy took of himself with the auto-timer standing in the living room of his apartment holding a briefcase.
Never mind.
A bunch of BigLaw third years don't have any cases... but I guess they do have some letterhead and slick pictures on the firm site.
3:26:
isn't Merck just a contract attorney, offering his services to research/write something for other attorneys? In which case, his name wouldn't be on any briefs/cases because the attorney/firm that hires him would put their names on it.
Way to waste some money on that westlaw/lexis search, though.
McDade looks like a perv
Merck to 145!
the merck bashing is becoming as irritating as the "first" and "wgwag" comments. he's done a damn fine job today of cobbling together content so lay off him.
^^^^ Shut up, Merck
i like cheese
Merck's Mayer Brown/Refco post was half-baked. there are typos and no real analysis by the Merck-ster.
yeah, lay off merck. he's no Lat, and not even a Laurie Lin, but dont' read his threads if you dont' like them. he does a perfectly adequate job filling in.
yeah, lay off merck. he's no Lat, and not even a Laurie Lin, but dont' read his threads if you dont' like them. he does a perfectly adequate job filling in.
I bigger than Merck... you know, downstairs. Much bigger.
Westlaw is free in law school. I figured Merck's trashing of McDade through a WL search deserved a similar response.
McDade's a punk who is in sore need of a good bitch-slapping. It seems a lot of prosecutors from Down South (McDade, Nifong) are half-wits.
When Lat's away, the liberals will play?
If my unit were a case on WL, it would be a very long case. Know what I'm sayin?
Merck's photo is OK, but as Men with Briefcases photos go, I think this company's site has a much more inspiring pose.
http://www.execuquest.com/aboutus.htm
What I'm packin' will not fit in a briefcase. I've tried it. You can ask my secretary cause I made her watch. It is just too damn LARGE.
So, was McDade found guilty/liable? (Not a law student, so my WL ain't free).
McDade appears to be slime. ATL should cover this with as much vigor as it covers Charney and salaries...
Lay off McDade. It seems he is only guilty of watching some episodes of The Office, and replicating the perfectly appropraite behavior exhibited by Michael Scott.
That's what she said
Does David Lat still reside in N.J.? I think I saw him getting a lap dance at Badabing- the strip bar from the Sopranos.
Once a bad guy, always a bad guy.
Glad to see that more of you are seeing the light. Not that Merck is great, or necessarily even good, but that Merck haters are the epitome of no-class cowardly douche-hood.
I like the shooting rubber bands at breasts and buttocks part; kind of hard to characterize that as a "misunderstanding"....
That said, I once saw a core majority of male associates ritually tape a female law clerk to a chair, in the office, during a drunken bacchanal ---but that was in the early 80's.......
In the present century, she would have owned the practice, the building, the senior partner’s Austin Martin….
It's an Aston Martin. And I thought I told you to finish rotating the wheels.
"I like the shooting rubber bands at breasts and buttocks part; kind of hard to characterize that as a "misunderstanding"...."
IT WAS! He was aiming for the poo-nanny
I want some pu55y!
DA of Douglas County, David McDade, is at it again!!! He has wrongfully accused Stephen Reed of Marietta ga with child abuse! Stephen just slapped Mr. McDade with another federal lawsuit to add to his collection. You can read more about the case at www.myspace.com/justiceforstephenreed You can also email me at ashley_reed@live.com for any questions. Please help me in freeing my brother and clearing his name whiling bringing McDade's career to an END!!!
tape the penile implant to his mustache