Still, Bryson may come to regret some of the things she said in her deposition. He did rule against Toothaker’s attempt to assert marital privilege to shield communications between Kemp and herself that Bryson has been trying to get her to testify about. 27 Scherer filed a motion seeking sanctions against Bryson and Turner for filing a “frivolous” complaint and pursuing it in bad faith. But Bryson considers her a witness with crucial information about the nude photos.Toothaker pops up in Bryson’s ongoing lawsuit as allegedly seeing a nude shot of Bryson in the possession of Peter Kemp, Toothaker’s estranged husband. She isn’t a party in the Bryson lawsuit and wasn’t directly involved in the custody case. Recently Toothaker got some favorable attention when Broward State Attorney-elect Harold Pryor named her to his transition team, reported. Bryson believed Toothaker “had grave concerns about her own public image.” She “prevailed upon Bryson to avoid mention of her when gossip columnists” found the Bryson-MacDiarmid divorce case, the lawsuit says. Therefore, she folded and let Scherer win, it says.īryson apparently thought her ex’s girlfriend, Toothaker, had political ambitions. Toothaker as potential witnessĪ Miami lawyer - presumably Turner - wanted to save Bryson “from reputational injury, public humiliation and scorn… would certainly impact Bryson’s reelection hopes,” the complaint says. A judge since 2010, Bryson would win re-election in 2016 and that upcoming campaign played a role in how she handled the custody case, she said in her lawsuit. Politics, sexual and otherwise, seemingly influenced the 2015 child custody proceedings. None of the main players or their lawyers - Scarola, Turner, Toothaker and other lawyers for Bryson and Scherer - responded to emailed requests for comment from Florida Bulldog.
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On Tuesday Roby set a jury trial docket call for Feb. But in a win for Scherer, Roby ordered Bryson to produce the all-important nude photos by Nov.
Lucie Circuit Court Judge William Roby to convene a jury trial and let her seek punitive damages. Bryson will be up for reelection in 2022.īryson has been pressing St.
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It’s likely the courtroom brawl ignited one or more professional disciplinary investigations if any exist, though, they’re confidential unless and until they lead to ethics charges. Lucie County judge because her colleagues are conflicted out.)įive years into this contest, no one is sure who will win, the judge or Scherer.Īlso unknown is whether everyone will emerge unscathed. Bryson’s suit against Scherer went to a St. (Four months later Scherer dropped his suit against Turner. He said he’d used a common pre-filing settlement technique. Turner responded in court papers that the Scherer lawsuit was an attempt to “criminalize” a legitimate claim. Hours later, Bryson sued Scherer and his law firm, Conrad & Scherer, in Palm Beach Circuit Court for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Scherer sued Bryson’s lawyer Turner and his law firm, Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright, in Broward Circuit Court for issuing the demand, labeling it “extortion.” Two related lawsuits were filed on the same day, April 11, 2019, in different courts. A year after the divorce, Toothaker and MacDiarmid were living together, according to Bryson’s complaint. Toothaker was romantically linked to Bryson’s ex-husband, political consultant and lobbyist James Blake MacDiarmid. Scherer briefly represented Stephanie Toothaker, a high-profile Fort Lauderdale real estate lobbyist and lawyer, in a related discovery dispute. The motive for this alleged strong-arming was to gain leverage in a battle about her then two-year-old son, according to Bryson.
For his messenger he enlisted well-known West Palm Beach litigator Jack Scarola. The judge claims that five years ago, prominent Fort Lauderdale lawyer William Scherer tried to weaponize them and other harmful information to intimidate her. Palm Beach County Court Judge Marni Bryson says in a pending lawsuit that nude photos from what she calls her pregnancy “chronicle” somehow landed in the wrong hands. This sexy, politically tinged drama - a future Netflix original production? - spotlights dueling, scandalous claims. And with a sitting judge and some prominent South Florida lawyers trading extortion charges, rarely are so many lofty reputations on the line. The rest of the time it can be a killing field strewn with the casualties of child custody and property battles.īut seldom do hostilities reach the bombshell force of an ongoing spinoff case in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Judge Marni Bryson, left, and lobbyist Stephanie Toothakerĭomestic relations court is a happy place when families celebrate adoptions.
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