San Francisco Backs Down: Facing a Lawsuit by the NRA,...

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20191001/san-francisco-backs-down-facing-a-lawsuit-by-the-nra-mayor-breed-declares-we-won-t-blacklist-nra-contractors ^ | 1]/1/19

[Impala64ssa]

Mayor Breed Declares – We Won’t Blacklist NRA Contractors
Fairfax, Va.– The National Rifle Association of America declared victory in San Francisco today, after Mayor London Breed formally disavowed key provisions of a municipal resolution that signaled  the blacklisting of contractors linked to the Second Amendment advocacy group. 

On September 3, 2019, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is the legislative body for the City and County of San Francisco, unanimously approved a resolution that called for the City to investigate ties between its contractors and vendors and the NRA.  The city declared the NRA was a “domestic terrorist organization.” Not surprisingly, the NRA sued.

On September 9, 2019, less than a week after the resolution was enacted, the NRA challenged it as government action adversely affecting its First Amendment rights. In its filing, the NRA called the resolution a “blacklisting” measure, and urged San Francisco’s federal court to “step in and instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree.”

Late last week, rather than await “instruction” from a court, San Francisco Mayor London Breed backed down.  In a formal memorandum to City officials, she declared that “no [municipal] department will take steps to restrict any contractor from doing business with the NRA or to restrict City contracting opportunities for any business that has any relationship with the NRA.” 

“Through these actions and our public advocacy, we hope the message is now clear,” says NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. “The NRA will always fight to protect our members and the constitutional freedoms in which they believe.”

 The NRA is represented in its lawsuit by William A. Brewer III and Sarah Rogers of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, along with Garman Turner Gordon LLP. 

“The memo serves as a clear concession and a well-deserved win for the First and Second Amendments of the United States Constitution,” says William A. Brewer III, partner at Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors and counsel for the NRA. “It is unfortunate that in today’s polarized times, some elected officials would rather silence opposing arguments than engage in good-faith debate. The NRA - America’s oldest civil rights organization – won’t stand for that.”

The NRA’s challenge to a similar ordinance in Los Angeles remains pending.  Last month, the city’s motion to dismiss was denied in its entirety by federal district judge Stephen V. Wilson, who found that the NRA had stated a clear First Amendment claim.

 

[Impala64ssa]

Good. Now the Board of Stupidvisors can focus on more trivial matters,like the homeless who camp out in the more fashionable 'hoods pooping on the streets and degrading the value of those quaint overpriced townhouses.

[MortMan]

No - This should only limit the punitive damages, not the compensatory damages.

The declaration stands, and is the root of the issue. Malfeasance on the SF board, clearly.

[max americana]

” In a formal memorandum to City officials, she declared that “no [municipal] department will take steps to restrict any contractor from doing business with the NRA or to restrict City contracting opportunities for any business that has any relationship with the NRA.”

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this asshole mayor is lying. Leftards are vindictive pukes and will still blacklist..

[eyeamok]

NOT GOOD ENOUGH, this is where our side Fails Miserably, they have Already Committed a FELONY just by passing the resolution, and there is NO IMMUNITY from 18 U.S. Code § 241. Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. FILE THE CASE IN Federal Court and See it through. Always Punch the Bully square in the Nose.

[eyeamok]

oops,

NOT GOOD ENOUGH, this is where our side Fails Miserably, they have Already Committed a FELONY just by passing the resolution, and there is NO IMMUNITY from
18 U.S. Code § 241. Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

FILE THE CASE IN Federal Court and See it through. Always Punch the Bully square in the Nose.

[ctdonath2]

Punitive damages are very much reasonable.
Even if struck down or withdrawn, the municipality has signaled a clear bias with malicious intent; those selecting contractors will still look for NRA connections and if found seek other reasons to reject the contractor.
This has to be PAINFUL for SF, making clear that ANYONE acting with such bias on the city’s behalf risks similar punitive punishment.

[jonascord]

If they do it correctly, the NRA can own the city government, and set up a 1,000 yard high power range on the Embarcadero... Move the Camp Perry Nationals to San Fran...

Tell me that this wouldn't discourage the squatters in town. The local Left would stroke out.

[Scrambler Bob]

Tell me that this wouldn’t discourage the squatters in town.
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New for Camp Perry

Moving targets.

[GoldenPup]

The communists lost one.

[ptsal]

horsefeathers!

[ptsal]

Ninth Circuit... nothing will happen

[PapaBear3625]

Ninth Circuit... nothing will happen

Trump has two more 9th Circuit nominees coming up for a Senate vote this week. Never say never.

And even the leftists on the 9th do not want to risk the case getting to the Supreme Court, and having them deliver a national smack-down.

[ptsal]

The black ropes are polarized and not to be trusted.

[William Tell]

I’m plenty deplorable but I resent being labelled a “terrorist”.

[Kudsman]

If it’s used in the tone tearing apart everything Marxist I’d accept that moniker. Martyr it even.