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Entertainment & Sports

Feb. 2, 2012

A stalker's dream come true

A change in court procedure has brought stalkers face-to-face with their celebrity obsessions.

Edwin F. McPherson

Partner, McPherson LLP

Email: emcpherson@mcpherson-llp.com

Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA

Ed specializes in music copyright litigation, general entertainment litigation, and crisis management.

Because my firm does almost exclusively entertainment litigation, we have been immersed for some time, of necessity, in the world of celebrity stalkers. It is a sad world, typically involving one type of mental illness or another. Generally, the victims are female, though males are definitely not immune from being stalked. Some of our clients only have to deal with this once in their lives; some have the misfortune of having numerous stalkers. I even seem to have picked up one myself recen...

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