[longtermmemmory]

The "without prejudice" is standard procedure. Cases are dismissed, amended and refiled on a routine bases all the time. There is nothing surprising there. By the 4th or 5th time in may be dismissed with prejudice.

They had better change it significantly if the want the next dismissal to be without prejudice.

[End Times Sentinel]

In a related story, Nike and Seagram's stock plummeted today.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

In a related story, Nike and Seagram's stock plummeted today.

[lilylangtree]

I wanna sue because my relatives left England in the 1600's because of religious persecution.

[OXENinFLA]

Oh Pleeeeeeeeeeease tell me the Judge was Black.

[Congressman Billybob]

This sloppy description of the dismissal of this case parallels how I said, here on FR, that it would be thrown out, when the case was first filed. The article never uses the word "latches," which is Norman French for "delay." However, I bet a dollar to a doughnut that the trial court used that word.

The article does use the phrase, "atatute of limitations." What this means, in plain English, is this: If any Plaintiff in any case -- regardless of subject -- WAITS TOO LONG to file his case, it will be rejected for that reason alone. And since the US Supreme Court confirmed the dismissal of a Japanese-American claim forty years after WW II ended, it is self-evident that a delay of more than a century is too much.

Such dismissals have nothing to do with the merits of the case. Such dismissals assume that the case might have had merit if brought in a timely matter, but throw the case out on the grounds of latches, or delay.

Does that make since?

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread).

[tinacart]

"No justice, no peace!" (sarcasm off now)

[jpl]

I want to sue Spike Lee because he called Italians "dagos" in his movie and really hurt my feelings.

[Pietro]

"Jean-Baptiste had said that if the plaintiffs won their lawsuit, they would set up a trust fund to help the black community support social programs."

How many more "social programs" can the black community endure before it becomes totally, completely and utterly disfunctional?

All they need is one more Jesse Sharpon to push them into the abyss.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Well, Andy, weese jus got ta get us a new scam."

[sweetliberty]

Occasionally justice is done.

[BipolarBob]

I wanna sue somebody for all these lawsuits that take up court time, but that would only perpetuate the problem.



Oh yeah, I was offended somehow too, I think.

[trebb]

I'm keeping a close watch for these lawsuits - if one actually gets through, it's my turn. My Dad's parents came from Poland and entered through Ellis Island where the last name was changed to a short easy version when they were processed. I feel like I was arbitrarily robbed of my cultural history and identity, and kids even made fun of my name in Kindergarden.

I have suffered more than words can explain. I think $100 - $200 million would about set things right. And, if I get the award, I will set up a trust fund for people who suffer for having funny names. </sarcasm

[sr4402]

As for the timing, he said the plaintiffs had failed to show how the wrongs cited in the lawsuit fall within the statute of limitations.

This is the key phrase. Don't come back here unless you can prove it falls within the statute of limititations.

So when the plaintiffs say they will file an appeal, it probably means they want to get around the statute. They don't care that those individuals who may have been wronged are dead, nor the people who supposedly wronged them are dead too.

Let's say they win. Whose the next target? Can I sue the goverment of Egypt if I am Jewish for the persecution under Pharoh?

[DMZFrank]

I have always been mystified by racial grievance mongers who pontificate on the glorious Nirvana that their lives would be had they only been left in Mother Africa, notwithstanding the general quality of life there. Since most American blacks have some measure of Caucasian genealogical ancestry, and since slavery was the transmission belt that enabled the mixing of their black and white ancestor's gene pools,(whether by rape,semi voluntary or voluntary associations) than what they are really saying is that they and their decendents would rather not exist.

I acknowledge the kidnapping and suffering of my African ancestors, and the resultant decades of slavery, oppresion, and discrimination that amounted to a monstrous crime for them. But the result was me and my family living in a nation that provides the most liberty and opportunity for any African descended people on earth. I am profoundly grateful to be here. I welcome the opportunity for any clarifcation of the historical record, and should that clarification reveal more evidence of the often bestial nature of the American institution of slavery, than we should unflinchingly face and acknowledge it. The historical record should be properly contextualized, and honestly examined without any attempt to inflate the crime beyond the actual truth of the injustice. The endless racial navel gazing, racial identity posturing, and puffed up grievance mongering should be rejected for the PC irrelevance that it is.

The race industry merchants and class action lawyers would divide us into warring ethnic enclaves with mortar pits in the streets sniping at each other ala the Balkans. This is nothing more than a cultural Marxist wealth redistribution scheme.