Posted on 07/27/2010 7:37:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) -- A voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants was suspended Tuesday by the Fremont City Council, less than two days before it was set to take effect in the eastern Nebraska city.
Council members voted 8-0 to delay an ordinance that is being challenged by two federal lawsuits, saying the move will save the city money in its legal defense.
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Names & Contact Numbers for the city council? Now these city councils act like Congressman & Senators!!
The council caved to the pressure of the ACLU thugs. How wonderful for their citizens. How wonderful for us all.
(/sarcasm)
In fairness, they probably caved because they feared they would be bringing potentially ruinous legal costs onto the heads of their taxpayers. Unlike the Federal Gummint, cities and states can’t just print up more money whenever they get a wild hair to spend more.
I’d like to see them proceed with the law but have difficulty finding fault if they are trying to avoid incurring costs they can’t afford to pay.
Well, the ACLU usually files under the “private attorney general” provisions of the Civil Rights Act that allows them to collect attorneys fees if they prevail at any stage of the litigation. They then associate a whole bunch of expensive lawyers with the case to drive up the fees award. So, no small town can afford to take them on. The choice is to establish and fully fund an American’s equivalent of MALDEF to indemnify cities like this, or keep watching them cave.
Based on some of those fees cases, this may be a very smart strategic move, because it may toll the bell on a future fee award.
The mistake of the ordinance initiators was in fact to initiate an ordinance, which no doubt can be repealed and ignored by the City Council.
They should have initiated an amendment to their City Charter, which would be unrepealable by the Council itself.
That’s the way we jam it down the throats of our elected officials here in Colorado when necessary.
Ask yourselves - How do we defeat this. The people voted & their reps throw them out. ONLY a true REVOLUTION will rid us of these worthless POS. Who has the power in America? Better be ready to defend it or totally lose it. Every single one of these 8 must go. I only wish that I could live there in my native state again for six months. I have the time & the ambition. I’ll make sure that these POS aren’t around next yr.
Doesn’t the article say that the town has a lawyer ready to defend them pro bono? I’m sure I read it, will try to check again later.
If I’m mistaken about that, I certainly understand the town’s response to thuggery. It still doesn’t make any of it right and I agree with Armsted’s idea. Allied Defense Fund may have to expand from Christian tort defense...
There’s a pro bono offer, however...
The problem isn’t their legal costs, its the ACLU’s costs which they can be required to pay if they lose the case at any point, even if they ultimately win. There’s even a case that held that even though a city won at every step, it still had to pay the other side’s fees because the lawsuit caused the city to change its policy.
No wonder the country is in such a mess. Hang the lawyers!
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