Mireskandari

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This case and the underlying litigation that spawned it have a lengthy history. Our summary here will be brief, and we will discuss certain proceedings in more detail when we address Mireskandari’s related claims of error. 1. The Daily Mail Articles and the U.K. Disciplinary Proceeding Against Mireskandari Mireskandari was educated in the United States and later moved to London, England. He was admitted to the English bar as a solicitor in 2000 and became a partner in the law firm of Dean & Dean in 2005. Beginning in September 2008, the Daily Mail, a London tabloid, published a series of unflattering articles about Mireskandari. Among other things, the articles said Mireskandari had been convicted of fraud in California in connection with a telemarketing scam; he claimed to have a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, of which the university had no record; he failed to pass his classes at a “minor local” law school in the United States; he obtained his law degree from the American University of Hawaii, which subsequently was shut down by the courts; and he overcharged clients for legal work. In December 2008, the Solicitors…