Posted on 08/30/2020 5:56:27 AM PDT by Libloather
CHICAGO - A lawsuit over the planned Obama Presidential Center’s campus in Jackson Park has stalled after a federal appeals court panel ruled the plaintiffs did not suffer actual harm and that many of their grievances were not within the court’s jurisdiction.
The 7th Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals issued the ruling on Friday, more than two years after community group Protect Our Parks Inc. filed suit alleging the Chicago Park District and the city of Chicago improperly transferred public park land to the Obama Foundation for private use. The decision to remand the case means the lawsuit is effectively dead - although one of the plaintiffs said Tuesday the legal fight will continue.
“We are pleased the court ruled in our favor on the federal claims, and if plaintiffs persist in litigating the state claims that the district court found without merit, we will continue to defend our position,” Kathy Fieweger, the city’s law department director of public affairs, said in a Tuesday statement.
Among other things, Protect our Parks argued the $500 million, four-building complex’s proposed location on 19.3 acres of the historic Jackson Park violates the public trust doctrine governing use of public land for the greater good of citizens, according to the lawsuit.
The pending litigation, along with a lengthy federal review on how development will impact a park listed on the National Register of Historic Places, halted construction on the campus for years. An official opening date for the presidential center remains elusive.
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Protect Our Parks is pushing back at a federal ruling that allows the Obama Presidential Center to use part of the historic Jackson Park.
The parks group plans to file a motion asking the courts to reconsider allowing the Obama center to go up in the South Side public park. The move could potentially further delay the project that was first announced in the summer of 2016.
Last week, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a lawsuit filed by Protect Our Parks against the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago questioning the transfer of Jackson Park to the Obama Foundation to build the presidential center.
Now comes the parks group saying: “The opinion issued last week does not prevent Protect Our Parks from its legal right to stop - in an appropriate court and at an appropriate time - the defendants’ breach of Public Trust and Ultra Vires acts,” the group said in a statement Thursday, also saying it has the standing to sue on behalf of Chicagoans to prevent the land transfer.
The Obama Center didn’t respond directly to the park group, but issued a statement to Playbook saying: “We are pleased with the panel's ruling in favor of the city in this lawsuit and remain eager to deliver on the many community and economic benefits of the Obama Presidential Center. We appreciate the inputs and involvement of the thousands who participated in the rigorous public process the panel referenced in its decision.”
It’s hard not to think about another parks group that put a crimp in a museum’s plans to build in Chicago. In 2016, Friends of the Parks successfully fought plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to build in Chicago. Ultimately, movie mogul George Lucas took his museum to Los Angeles, where construction is expected to finish in 2021.
obama is divisive everywhere he goes.
Funny that:
Obama never went back to his “hometown” of Chicago
That Chicago really doesn’t want Obama back.
<><> The Chicago-based tax-exempt Obama Foundation says it wont release the names of his (foreign?) mega-donors.
<><> Obama is exploiting the presidency----pocketing huge speaking fees...
.........he will not reveal the terms of his speaking engagements.
<><> The Obama Foundation is supposedly holding $100 million taken from the State Dept to be dole out as needed
.........."to teach Muslim girls in Morocco."
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The contrast between party conventions could not have been greater.
<><> Democrats painted a picture of a country you’d want to flee –
<><> Democrats want to impose a racist hellhole built on oppression,
<><> Democrats resurrect a frightening Adolf Hitler Jr. regime
<><> Democrats are just waiting for the chance to seize absolute power.
And in the bgrnd are sperminator Hunter and the rest of the money-hungry Biden clan,
all lined up to loot and pillage the govt till, and kick taxpayers into perpetual poverty.
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And it's all done with (A) a toothy smile from the Who-Me-Worry? candidate,
(B) regular "sincere" reassurances from Nanzi and the Dem crowd.....
(C) plus the purity and dependability of "mail-in" voting.
One of Thomas Jefferson’s indictments against the king that justified the declaration and subsequent colonial rebellion:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
Sounds a lot like an early American description of the Obama/Biden years
<><> siccing the IRS on innocent law-abiding citizens
<><> Obama was obsessed w/ govt wiretaps——numbers rose 71% during one year of Obama’s reign
<><> Obama used drones to shoot down Americans
<><> Obama’s state dept covered-up of sex scandals-—obstructing justice
<><> Obama nixed sex-related investigations (w/ Joe’s help?)
<><> Obama’s DOJ labeled Fox journo Rosen a criminal; charging him, spying on his family—
<><> Obama monitored the Asso Press,
<><> Obama via Verizon spied on the USSC via their blackberries
<><> Obama spied on Congress via Verizon blackberries
This is just like the 0buttWadd Crap Care. People are being forced to accept something that they don’t want. Ain’t Marxism great.
the Center’s progress may very well be dependent on a Biden win in Nov!
same goes for the health of the Clinton Foundation/Global Inititiative or whatever.
That’s the thing about “Community Organizers.” Once they hit the jackpot, the people they used are still in the same situation.
How much land is needed just to put up an outhouse?
$500 million for a liebrary?
That is a very good book.
L
Let the Kenyan from Indonesia build his monument to himself in Kenya or Indonesia.
Google: obama outhouse
Click Images
Many many images to view!
When Obama left office, it was claimed that al the records had to be archived and could not be researched until his Presidential Library opened. Is that still the case? If so, all this delay is no accident.
The faster they build it, the sooner we can smear paint, graffiti and throw bags of feces at it.
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