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Britney's New Command Performance

Posted Apr 10th 2009 7:03PM by TMZ Staff

Britney Spears will be appearing in a Los Angeles arena and, if a certain lawyer has it his way, an L.A. County courtroom.

Jon Eardley, Esq., the lawyer who claims Britney hired him to torpedo her conservatorship, has just filed legal papers demanding that Brit appear at a trial in which Eardley has been accused of harassing Britney and her family.

In his legal papers, Eardley notes that Britney will be performing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on April 16 and 17. He says if she's well enough to perform, she's well enough to testify on two points -- did she authorize Eardley to take legal action on her behalf and did Eardley really cause her "substantial emotional distress."

The judge will have to decide if Britney is competent enough to testify and if it's fair to drag her into court. It would certainly be entertaining.

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1. I love you britney!

Posted at 7:11PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Paul

2. 2nd!

Posted at 7:12PM on Apr 10th 2009 by im lame

3. Here's the funny thing: if SLUTney is judged not competent to testify at the trial, then WTF are all those stupid SLUTney fans thinking, buying tickets to a fake concert lip synched by an INCOMPETENT MORON?

Just proves that SLUTney & her idiot fans deserve each other. Dumbasses of a feather stick together...

Posted at 7:17PM on Apr 10th 2009 by She sucks BIGTIME

4. Actually, I would like to know if Britney contacted this lawyer who was working along with Sam Lufti and Adnan. If she did, then SHAME ON HER.

Remember in her MTV documentary when she said, "I'm a smart person, what the HELL was I thinking?" Well, if she contacted this lawyer, she's obviously not smart and did not learn a darn thing. She talked about allowing "bad people" into her life, but yet she possibly called them to get her out of her conservatorship. If that is the case, that documentary was just lies on her part.

Posted at 7:22PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Want to know

5. Either that lawyer is a complete loon,

or he has an amazingly strange, but true, story.

Posted at 7:35PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Jandi

6. she looks marvelous

Posted at 7:35PM on Apr 10th 2009 by come back britney

7. she looks marvelous

Posted at 7:36PM on Apr 10th 2009 by come back britney

8. BIGTIME, you are so stupid. You sound like a very bitter person with problems.

The point of this story is that consevatorships are very rare in the real world, outside of the crazy situation that Britney is in. They are reserved for people who are in vegetative states or who have already been declared permanently disabled by SSI or private disability insurance, and in ADDITION to being permanently disabled, are not mentally competent to make decisions for themselves about basic care, not about shopping choices or friend choices. It is very bizarre (when compared to how consevatorships are used in the real world) that Britney is under the conservatorship, without making any judgment about it being a good or bad thing for her. So, the question is how can a person who can perform on stage (not something a person who in incompetent should be capable of doing) not be able to answer simple questions?

Despite the conservatorship having many positive benefits for Britney, legally, it is very strange, and its existence is no doubt highly dependent on local LA politics and money. It is a legitimate issue, and you are so stupid you've twisted the point of the story into a pretzel. The question is not why do people want to see an "incompetent singer", the point is that a person who is performing is surely not incompetent by the standards courts ususally use to determine competence.

Posted at 7:37PM on Apr 10th 2009 by hn0

9. BIGTIME, I think that you need to be under a consevatorship. It sounds like if you have a lot of mental issues and possibly may have suffered some type of brain damage.
If you don`t like Britney then don`t read about her. She is doing so much better now and she does not need people like you writting crap about her.

Posted at 7:46PM on Apr 10th 2009 by WTF

10. Should be easy for the judge to find her incompetent. Britney is mentally ill and will be forever. Medications may control the symptoms but for how long???

Posted at 7:47PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Big Bear

11. If she can perform and "record" (i.e., stand there while electronics dub her voice) and make millions of dollars, then her dumb ass can show up in court for 15 minutes.

Who are the stupid idiots who buy her music and go to her concerts? Jesus people, get a clue!

Posted at 7:56PM on Apr 10th 2009 by can't stand no-talent "artists"

12. i agree with BIGTIME!

Posted at 8:06PM on Apr 10th 2009 by i agree with bigtime

13. What kind of weird coincidence is it that Jon Eardley is practicing in Whittier and Octomom just moved from there? Maybe someone should get them together?

Posted at 8:09PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Lola

14. Seriously, can people leave Britney alone!!!! Damn everyone really wants a piece of her!!!!!!

Posted at 8:48PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Marta

15. After all this whining and bitching, I hope that she actually gets her freedom! She will immediately run loose again and seek out all the douchebags from her past! If someone is so bound and determined to destroy themselves through their own stupidity, I say let them! Let her be an annotation in the Darwin Awards if she's so damned determined!

Posted at 9:52PM on Apr 10th 2009 by Ridiculous!!

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