Evan,
Here's a hypothetical for you. If you were representing ( insert name of non-lily-white cobra counterfeiter here) and CS came along and demanded as fee for every car you built, what would you advise your client to do?
1. Pay the amount requested by CS because it is the morally correct thing to do.
2. Pay the amount requested by CS because you'll make friends with SAAC.
3. Pay the amount requested by CS because you won't have to go to confession anymore.
4. Nothing. I'm an attorney and I don't represent criminals, real estate brokers, shady kit car maufacturers or other attorneys!
5. Do not pay CS anything because he has given up any rights he may have had by sitting on his hands too long. Further, if you did pay him and later stop, maybe CS would have a valid claim against you.
Please tell me you would advise your client that options one through four are the only valid, viable and legally correct ones.
