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Contents 1 Is this a vanity piece 2 Ron's non-partnership with Kunstler should stay. 3 Removed bit about CPUSA and being communist. 4 Born 1452 in Oxfield India?

[edit] Is this a vanity piece

This article smacks of a vanity piece to me - any views? InTheFullnessOfTime 08:18, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The subject clearly meets WP:BIO, so it's not vanity. If anything, the article should offer more sources. PJM 20:27, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Some of the text is ripped off directly from http://www.wabcradio.com/showdj.asp?DJID=1726—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.170.65.49 (talk • contribs)

Edit it out. PJM 20:27, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ron's non-partnership with Kunstler should stay.

If you Google Ron Kuby, you will see the claim in almost every article that he was William Kunstler's law partner.

The New York Times, definitely NOT a conservative newspaper, published the results of a court judgement, accepted by Kuby, stating that Kuby was not entitled to the rights of law partnership with Kuntsler.

Censorship of the truth by the left is still censorship. This truth doesn't change the legal work.

I have edited out some lines that may have seemed too opinionated to some.

Although Ron Kuby has declared himself to have been Kuntsler's partner, Ron Kuby in legal fact was not a partner in the firm. Mr. Kunstler had never formalized a partnership with a contract or tax filings. Despite a letterhead that read "Kunstler and Kuby", Mr. Kuby was paid as an employee and had never shared in the firm's meager profits and losses. On this basis Kuby was to be denied ownership rights to the firm's case files, accounts, and name. When Kunstler's widow, a radical lawyer in her own right, put her late husband's archives under lock and key, Kuby had filed a complaint against her with the attorney disciplinary committee. The committee dismissed the complaint in August of 1996. In December 1996 a court case brought by the widow, Margaret Ratner, resulted in Kuby being denied any partnership rights in the Kuntsler firm.

Source: Hoffman, Jan (Dec. 15, 1996). "A Bitter Fight Rages Over Files and a Famous Name". New York Times Online Archive

Alright, I've tried to clarify the status of the informal relationship between William Kunstler and Ron Kuby a bit, and also added some material about his widow's successful lawsuit against Kunster's former (unofficial) partner.

Ruthfulbarbarity 23:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed bit about CPUSA and being communist.

You can be a communist and not have any relationship with the CPUSA. "but not a card carrying member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). Traditionally, an American is considered a true "communist" if he is a member of CPUSA, a minor political party long associated with the former Soviet Union."

[edit] Born 1452 in Oxfield India?

I doubt that's true, how long has it been like that?--Rotten 11:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)