Catholic Law's alumnus Jerry P. Roscoe '82 recently served as the mediator helping to settle the historic Fox-Dominion defamation lawsuit. An experienced mediator who has handled wartime disputes in the Balkans, Roscoe worked the case while on vacation with his wife in Romania. His work on the Fox-Dominion case was covered in The Wall Street Journal.

Roscoe is currently associated with JAMS, a mediation, arbitration, and alternate dispute resolution (ADR) services firm. He is a former litigator with over 30 years of experience in the resolution of complex, multi-party matters, including commercial, health care, employment, and environmental disputes. Roscoe has chaired multimillion-dollar arbitrations, mediated Supreme Court cases, and served as a United States mediator during the war in Bosnia.

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The Wall Street Journal
By: Joe Flint
Date: April 19, 2023
The Man Who Settled the Fox-Dominion Defamation Case From a Romanian Tour Bus

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Mr. Roscoe had picked Romania as a vacation spot because he was one of the mediators for the U.S. during the war in Bosnia and said he wanted to see the region again “when people weren't shooting at me.” He agreed to take the case.

While he had followed the case peripherally, Mr. Roscoe wasn't well versed in it and took a crash course on a fight that has been closely watched in legal and media circles for the past two years.

“Next thing I knew I was reading a thousand court transcripts and pleadings,” Mr. Roscoe said in an interview from Romania.

For the 24 hours after he was brought in, Mr. Roscoe worked with both sides as he moved around. He negotiated from an AmaWaterways cruise from Budapest to Bucharest, a tour bus, where he sat in back, speaking into his phone with his coat over the mouthpiece to maintain secrecy, and at his hotel in Brasov, Romania.
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