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Catherine Bosley Sues WFMJ, Andrews CycleAsk Richard Haehn, the owner of Andrews Cycles in Salem, his response to the lawsuit filed Dec. 23 against him and his company by Catherine Bosley and you'll hear him unload. "It's a deep-pockets money grab. That's all it is," Haehn declares. "It's beyond me how an exhibitionist can go to Florida, enter a wet T-shirt contest, strut naked in front of a couple hundred people -- many of them with cameras -- and we get sued. What kind of legal system do we have?"The lawsuit, described by Bosley's attorney as an action to "avoid further publicity -- not to create publicity," seeks to collect $250,000 in damages from Haehn, Andrews Cycle, WFMJ Television Inc., one of its reporters, Michelle Nicks, and a technician, John Urchek. Bosley is the former WKBN-TV anchorwoman who resigned one year ago after pictures of nude dance at a Florida bar surfaced via the Internet. Her story was widely reported as Bosley -- who traveled to New York to be interviewed by ABC's Diane Sawyer -- explained she and her husband were on vacation celebrating her return to good health. The publicity avalanche led to the pictures, offered for sale at online pornography sites, becoming the most searched-for images as tracked by Internet search engines. Last February Bosley and her husband, Richard Brown, filed a lawsuit accusing some 25 porn sites and video producers of illegally profiting from her image. At a news conference outside the Youngstown federal courthouse, she said the core issue was her right to privacy. "We are on a very big mission to prevent this from happening to anybody else, and to set a precedent that this will not be tolerated in our country," she related. The lawsuits were settled in May with Bosley and Brown asserting copyright claims to all photos and videos of her barroom dance. The pictures have since been removed from every Internet site they have identified."Ownership was important to Catherine and Rick so that they could avoid further distribution and/or exposure. Indeed, Catherine and Rick have tried desperately to put their lives back together since this incident," said attorney Andrew A. Kabat of the Cleveland law firm of Reminger & Reminger Co. L.P.A., who last week filed the latest lawsuit.This lawsuit claims that WFMJ and Andrews Cycle employees separately engaged in the "widespread, willful and malicious practice of illegally editing, reproducing, copying, distributing, and/or selling" the pictures. Also named are Andrews Cycles Inc. and its owner, Russell Haehn."We understand that this lawsuit involves matters that some people perceive to be newsworthy or of public interest. However, Catherine and Rick and filing this lawsuit in an effort to avoid further publicity, not to create publicity," Kabat said in a written statement.Yeah, right, says Andrew Cycle's Haehn. "If her attorney wanted closure like he said, he should have let it die. Everybody had forgotten about her drunken strip-tease act."The lawsuit does not spell out the competitive aspects of WFMJ employees allegedly cranking out video copies of the nude pictures of WKBN's former morning news anchor. "It factors significantly into it," Kabat conceded in a brief phone interview. Since Bosley left WKBN's First News This Morning, its ratings have declined.John Grdic, general manager of WFMJ, did not return a call seeking comment. WFMJ's Nicks told a reporter from The Valley Voice, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I can't comment further because it's a lawsuit." The civil claim seeks statutory damages of $150,000 for each copyright violation plus $100,000 in punitive damages. In addition, Bosley is asking the court to issue an order prohibiting the defendants from disseminating the images in any manner and authorizing the seizure of all copies of the copyrighted images.Bosley joined WYFM-FM's morning show in September. She is writing a book, Don't Dance Nude, which she hopes to publish this year."