Lawyer Josh Sanford, not to be confused with Ponzi Schemer Robert Allen Stanford, has made the paper again. Lawyer Sanford has been a busy fellow. He has increased the number of strip clubs he’s suing in his hoped to be class action lawsuit by fifty percent, from 2 to 3; and increased the number of plaintiff strippers by 20%, from five to six; although one of the strippers may be double counted as being in more than one club’s list of complainants. Still you have to admire the fellow for his active pursuit to right this societal injustice. One suspects that he will visit every strip club in the state if necessary in order to ‘educate’ some additional strippers for the class action, minimum wage lawsuit. After all for Lawyer Sanford to make it a class action lawsuit one would think that he would need more than three clubs and five or six strippers, but I’m not experienced in these things; one must be a lawyer to know such.
In case you missed the prior article, Lawyer Sanford is suing these strip clubs to turn the strippers into employees instead of “independent contractors” thus allowing them to earn the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
“What Shirley? … Good Point.” At the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the strippers are agreeing to be paid at the lowest level, equivalent to the wage of unskilled labor. Does this indicate that the strippers are acknowledging that they are unskilled labor? Of course no one is suggesting that they are inexperienced, just questioning if they are pleading their case to be recognized as unskilled workers. One wonders if Lawyer Sanford has pursued this with them.
You have to admire the pluck of this guy. Reminds one of Lawyer Daggett in True Grit. To represent Kim Darby, “a young woman just doing her best” Lawyer J. Noble Daggett was even willing to face John Wayne, aka ‘Rooster Cogburn’, to achieve the goal of his client. “What Shirley? … No I wasn’t saying that Lawyer Sanford was just like Lawyer J. Noble Daggett. Just that he sort of reminds me sort of, you know, in the same line as, so to speak. For instance, if I said that President Obama reminds me of President Jimmie Carter I wouldn’t be implying that Carter was a better President, just that they sort or remind me of each other, get it? Good.”
Lawyer Sanford did not repeat his claim in this recent article that “ if these girls had their tops on, we would call them waitresses”. There are several possibilities for this omission on his part. First, his mother may have called and given him a talking to. Or perhaps, while attempting to order a “Grand Slam Breakfast” at Denny’s some hard working, top-on waitress may have suggested where he could place his order. Most likely some lawyer friend may have cautioned him that he had just maligned the good name and reputation of every hard working waitress in the state and that Lawyer Sanford might become the defendant in small law suit for defamation of character. Can’t you just visualize a waitress attending school on “Parents Day” and when introduced all the students start asking her if she takes off her top like Lawyer Sanford claims his "stripper like waitress" clients do. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Lawyer Sanford had to be in court on the same day for both lawsuits; one for the stripper pseudo waitresses and one against him by the real waitresses?
But back to this lawsuit. What if Lawyer Sanford wins, but the clubs can’t exist if required to pay the minimum for unskilled labor to strip off their clothing, and so shut down. Sort of a Pyrrhic Victory for the women “just doing the best they can to hold down a job”, but no longer having a place to work. One wonders if Lawyer Sanford has discussed this with his clients. Would they still have to pay him? Oh, wait, he gets paid by the clubs if they lose. So it could end up being a “lose- lose” situation. The clubs lose and fold; the strippers win but lose a place where “just doing the best they can to hold down a job”. But at least Lawyer Sanford can win, so it’s not a total wash out. At least something good can come out of all of this.
Think of this though. What if Lawyer Sanford were on permanent retainer from the “Christian Coalition for Cleaner Cities” which has been advocating the shutting down of all strip clubs. He could win his class action suit and make a fortune plus be paid by the “C.C.C.C.” for forcing the strip clubs to shut down. Man, that’s a real ‘two-fer’! Of course that is too devious to have even a scintilla of truth in it.
“What Shirley? …. No, despite what your Father said about your Mother’s divorce lawyer, lawyers don’t just crawl out from under a rock, like an “Orc” or something. I think that you’re confusing them with politicians. ….What? …You say that most politicians are lawyers?” Hmmm, I see your point.
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