Posted on 11/26/2024 1:30:20 AM PST by Libloather
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against a former employee completely backfired.
US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled Monday that CAIR’s donors, funding sources – including potentially foreign ones – and any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of former chapter leader Lori Saroya’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.
Saroya filed a federal defamation complaint against CAIR in January after the group dropped its own lawsuit against the former employee, which accused her of embarking on a “defamation campaign” against the organization, including by implying that CAIR is funded by foreign governments and terrorist organizations.
CAIR alleged that Saroya’s statements – posted on social media, in comment sections and emailed to the group’s supporters – damaged the organization’s ability to fundraise and build partnerships, but it ultimately dropped the lawsuit in January of 2022 over fears that Saroya’s legal team would “demand the names of CAIR supporters who have donated to us.”
Jeffrey Robbins, Saroya’s lawyer, described Monday’s ruling as “the mother of all legal boomerangs.”
“It’s a very important ruling,” Robbins said of the Minnesota district court judge’s order, in an interview with The Post, noting that the ruling is “very methodical, very careful, very detailed and very analytical.”
Robbins explained that the order will force CAIR to “turn over evidence about everything from fundraising practices, such as having raised money from foreign sources and concealed it; whether it deceived donors; whether it mismanaged donor money; whether it retaliated against employees or threatened to retaliate against employees for raising concerns about sexual harassment or the like.”
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Sorry, my dog (pbuh) ate the report showing our sources. Then I ate the dog.
CAIR-Collective Against Individual Rights
There are more than a few CAIR folks that should be given the choice to permanently leave the USA or do an air dance (also permanent).
But dogs are unclean! (As they drink camel piss and have sex with goats)
Harambe! Haram!
Haram! Haram!
Trump’s DOJ should use this ruling as a pretext to shut down CAIR and seize all of its assets.
When lawyers screw up....
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