On March 3, 2006, Glenn Hagele filed a frivolous SLAPP lawsuit against Brent Hanson and 20 "John Doe" lasik patients.  The purpose of the lawsuit was to intimidate patients from criticizing the LASIK procedure and Glenn Hagele.

On February 5, 2007, Brent Hanson's attorney filed a response to the lawsuit.  As a result, Hagele's attorneys, James Clinchard and K. Greg Peterson immediately abandoned the lawsuit.  Hagele then found a retired traffic commissioner, David Foos, to take up the case that was abandoned by his previous attorneys.

In the hasty notice provided to the court by David Foos, he repeatedly misspelled Glenn Hagele's name.  Glenn Hagele signed the document in spite of the mis-spellings.  Perhaps he was still recovering from the laser eye surgery he underwent several years previously, and couldn't read the document.

Glenn Hagele has issued an announcement that he intends to win the lawsuit by showing a life size prop of Brent Hanson dressed as Superman to the jury.