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Lowe Lawyers Put the Law in Claws

Posted May 16th 2008 5:13PM by TMZ Staff

The lawyers in the Rob Lowe nanny case are sharpening those legal knives -- and the fencing is pretty fierce.

Yesterday, TMZ told you first how Rob's lawyers filed a motion saying his nanny Jessica Gibson's complaint was full of bull. Well, Gloria Allred, Jessica's mega-lawyer, shot back, and we quote: "Rob Lowe's lawyers must not be aware of a U.S. Supreme Court case, Robinson versus Shell Oil, which held that former employees are protected from retaliation. They need to do their homework."

En garde! Lowe's own legal heavyweight, Larry Stein, had this to say, and again we quote: "I don't intend on arguing legal positions in the media, but rather in the courts where it should be done. But Gloria Allred is simply wrong on the law. I teach law at USC Law School. Whereas I teach law, she holds press conferences."

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16. As usual Allred is talking out of her arse. Robinson vs Shell Oil had to do with Robinson being fired by Shell Oil and then filing a complaint of racial discrimination with the EEOC. Shell then provided a negative review of his work performance to a prospective new employer, allegedly in retaliation for Robinson filing the complaint with the EEOC. So then Robinson filed another complaint with the EEOC asserting that, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he should be protected from retaliation for filing the racial discrimination complaint. The whole Supreme Court case revolved around whether Robinson should be protected under the Act even though he was not currently an employee of the company. The court said that he should be. Soooo, I don't see any relevance of that case to the cases we have here. Am I missing something Marty?

Posted at 11:39AM on May 17th 2008 by Patty

17. I believe every word the nanny says. It's not hard to imagine the disgusting wife and husband team preying on the nannies. Rob Lowe and his wife boih strike me as perverse, narcissistic famewhores, and being a predatory team has kept them together.

Posted at 12:25PM on May 17th 2008 by Tag Team

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