Well, maybe... but not through a (competent) lawyer. Having defended a few § 6F motions (against collection agencies and mortgage brokerages) myself back in the day, the most important aspect of the order is the part labelled "Findings of Fact". The judge was really irritated at Fletcher (and his lawyer), because by making the findings of fact that he did, in the way that he did, he set this up so that to win an appeal against the order Fletcher would have to show by "clear and convincing" evidence that is already in the record that the judge's decision was not well founded in fact... and then would have to overcome the judge's discretion.

In short, Yog, you might want to consider going after Fletcher's boat with an admiralty lien... because this is a very solid sanction order indeed.

Lawyerspeak can be MEGO-provoking stuff. Quoting from the paragraph immediately before the "Finding of Facts" header:

The Court on March 19, 2009 ordered the Complaint dismissed as to both defendants, Crispin and Strauss. The defendant, James McDonald [sic] had already been dismissed by the Court.

I'd say that is pretty definite.

Sounds as though Jim would have a claim for costs too.

I'm particularly pleased by the judge's comment that Fletcher's dealings are fraudulent. That's a lovely little nugget, isn't it?

I have been unable to determine the real existence of the following persons:

Hil Mallory
Mary Bluestone
Ellen Green
Georgina Orr
Sherry Fine

I suspect that they are all Robert M. Fletcher.

I'm reasonably sure that both "billy Walsh" and "Jonathan" who showed up right here at Making Light were none other than Robert Fletcher/Robert West/Bob West/Bob Williams himself.

That one is kind of obvious, isn't it?

Looking at those two posts, there's more than the content. There's a feel to the errors in the text which, with a larger sample and decent analysis, might blow away any disguise. Or maybe not; they're showing a common sort of error in there, and their authors might just suffer from the same imperfections of literacy.

But, you know something? He's still a fraudster, and he will go down and go down hard.

When he does I'll send him a nice fruit basket.

I sent an email to the Books Editor, with URLs for the Florida investigation and the Massachussets court ruling.

This could get interesting, though the UK's libel laws might be seen as an opportunity by Fletcher.

Thanks so much for keeping the public warned about this!