Posted on 09/27/2009 12:49:27 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Here is the full text of the ACORN complaint against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com. ACORN is suing for over $3,000,000 plus litigation costs and requesting appropriate punative damages. They demand a jury trial. The complaint asks the court to enter a temporary restraining order, preliminary and permament injunctions requiring the defendants to cease distributing and broadcasting the oral communications intercepted in the Baltimore offices of ACORN in July 2009, and to make their best efforts to prevent others from distributing and broadcasting said communications.
Hannah Giles has launched a legal defense fund. You can donate here.
Sounds fair.
11 members of the jury are ACORN members.
The 12 is a Rainbow Coalition board of director (and ACORN donor)
Change of venue would definitely be in order.
they won’t need a defense fund. They should be given an award.
Can the plaintiff demand a jury trial in a civil suit?
I thought that only the defendant could do so.
How does ACORN have standing to sue within a state that it did not have a license to operate?
Change of venue will be necessary, or this will be one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in all of US history.
I hope that happens...no change would be a disaster.
Can you say “OJ” again!
For what?
Defamation? Its only defamation if they were lies. Videos don’t lie. Doubt it meets entrapment, and wouldn’t it meet some whistleblower laws? Also, the videos they’re asking a judge to prevent being viewed, those can only be videos that were made in their jurisdiction correct? Despite the fact that ACORN was not legally allowed to operate in Maryland in the first place?
Having James and Hannah’s adresses out there can’t be good for them.
I spot one probelm right off: the Canal Street ACORN office is no longer in business, so it’s not a viable complaintant.
The videos are all over the net.
They cannot be pulled back
These people are delusional.
Were they in business when it was filed?
“Change of venue will be necessary, or this will be one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in all of US history.”
I regret to have to say this, but the only way to get a “fair” trial would be to move this to a rural area in Maryland. Must avoid having “inner city” black members on the jury. Yes, this is racist, but unfortunately true.
Anyone whose selves, friends, or relatives had dealings with ACORN should be out.
The suit was filed on September 23, 2009. I’m not sure when ACORN fled from the Canal Street premises.
Should they perhaps release all the videos now that remain (if there are more) before a court orders them not to?
For intentionally, willfully, in reckless disregard of the law, and with malice, intercepting, disclosing, and posting on the Internet private communications with Balitmore ACORN employees without their knowledge or consent in violation of (Baltimore) Courts and Judicial Proceedings Codes 10-402(a) and 10-410 resulting in the loss of employment, extreme emotional distress, and damage of the reputations of the two Baltimore ACORN employees and damage to the reputation of ACORN ... allegedly.
Well, not really.
IANAL, but I believe the court can issue a restraining order and injunction regarding the video tapes concerning only the two Baltimore ACORN employees, who are the plaintiffs in this case. If the other states in which O’Keefe and Giles taped their conversations with ACORN employees don’t have laws against such, then they can’t be sued over it. The Baltimore courts have no jurisdiction over the other tapes, but again, IANAL.
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