{"id":45348,"date":"2017-02-16T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45348"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:24:27","slug":"shatner-is-not-your-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/02\/shatner-is-not-your-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Is Not Your Father!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has dismissed a paternity case from a man claiming to be the son of <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Michael Sloan<\/strong> filed the suit claiming that during a meeting with Shatner on the set of <em>T.J. Hooker<\/em> back when that series aired, Shatner admitted that he was Sloan&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner and his representatives have denied that claim. &#8220;I had another conversation with Bill, who confirmed to me once again that he is not your father,&#8221; said Shatner&#8217;s attorney, <strong>Erik Hyman<\/strong>, in a November 2011 letter to Sloan that was cited in the lawsuit. &#8220;There have been many people over the years who have claimed to be his children or other relatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an incredibly busy, eighty-year-old man, and is not interested in spending time discussing this issue with you or any such individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sloan wanted a paternity test and $170 million in damages from Shatner.<\/p>\n<p>Sloan&#8217;s suit was &#8220;a rambling recitation of various alleged meetings, letters, articles, radio transcripts and internet posts,&#8221; said the judge who heard the case. &#8220;(Sloan&#8217;s) complaint, even liberally construed, fails to comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and fails to assert any discernible basis for the relief sought against the named defendants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sloan has until February 28 to file an updated complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has dismissed a paternity case from a man claiming to be the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4072,8807,2414],"class_list":["post-45348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-lawsuit","tag-paternity","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ShatnerPaternity032916.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45350,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45348\/revisions\/45350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}