Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Sloan v Truong, 08-5813-cv, Petition for Rehearing and Suggestion that the Rehearing Be En Banc

Sam Sloan has filed a petition for rehearing and suggestion that the rehearing be en banc.

Friday, May 15, 2009

We Made the SF Weekly

There is an article about us in the SF Weekly, a well known newspaper
in San Francisco.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-05-13/news/chessmasters-take-their-fight-to-sf-courts/

It says, in part:

As the kings and queens of American chess descend on St. Louis for the 2009 U.S. Championship tournament this week, another set of brainiacs is brawling here in San Francisco before a bemused federal judge.

The dispute, between warring factions of the U.S. Chess Federation's executive board, packs all the drama of a Cold War–era grandmaster showdown. It's a culture clash of skillful tacticians.

On one side is Susan Polgar, a Hungarian-born chess champ who cast herself as a reform candidate in the 2007 federation elections and won a seat on the seven-member executive board. Two other candidates supported by Polgar also joined the board, including her husband, Paul Truong.

Bill Goichberg, the federation president, criticized Polgar for keeping her marriage to Truong a secret during the campaign. Goichberg, whose leadership in the USCF dates to the mid-1970s, backed a separate slate of candidates. One of those candidates finished fourth and took the last remaining seat on the board.

Two months after the election, a former board member who had staged a losing campaign went to court in New York and claimed that Truong had impersonated him in thousands of defamatory postings on Internet message boards. The lawsuit was dismissed, but not before the board launched its own investigation.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Chess group levels charges at Tech employee

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/031109/loc_407742251.shtml

"Legal tiffs between the couple and federation associates began after the husband and wife won board seats in 2007. Chess writer Sam Sloan accused them of posting obscene Internet messages in his name, which they've repeatedly denied authoring. A judge dismissed his suit, but the federation and its associates have continued to pursue charges against the couple in various courts.

"The chess federation filed the complaint against Truong on March 5, adding it as a third-party complaint in a libel and slander lawsuit that Polgar filed against the federation last year.

"The complaint also accuses Truong of lying on his June 2007 bankruptcy filing. It says Truong reported he was unemployed when he was employed at Tech.

"Truong admitted to filing for bankruptcy in 2007 after a divorce, but told The Avalanche-Journal he wasn't employed by the university until September. The university, which has a policy against commenting on pending litigation, recorded his start date as June 1, according to information the university's office of communications provided."