Rancher wins $600K in suit against enviros

Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01/22/05 | Mitch Tobin

[IonImplantGuru]

Keeping enviro-wackoes honest: a never-ending task.

[Piquaboy]

Collecting it will be a never ending task.

[q_an_a]

sue the board members personally - they advocated the actions against honest people. Make them pay.

[yankeedame]

Collecting it will be a never ending task.

GMTA

[beef]

Fabulous! For once, the good guys win one.

[Pittsburg Phil]

Yes!

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Keeping enviro-wackos honest; a never ending task."

But oh so emotionally rewarding...heh,heh,heh.

[nuconvert]

"We did things with the best of intentions. If there were some mistakes, they were honest mistakes," he said.(Suckling said)"

I think he's just sucking-up.

[snopercod]

RICO suit?

[ken21]

since "advocacy journalism" appeared in the 1960s, there's been this arrogant attitude that journalists have the right to say whatever they want and label it "news".

[LS]

I celebrate the rancher's victory, but the sad thing is that the rest of us are paying for it with our tax money. The stupid PETA or National Wildlife Resource Fund or some private groups ought to have to bear this cost.

[Boot Hill]

Great news, great article, thanks for posting this, IIG.

With the punitive damages, Chilton should be able to "pierce the corporate shield" and go after each of the members individually, and take their homes, cars, bank accounts, savings, heck, maybe even their first born! Hurrah!

--Boot Hill

[goldstategop]

Let's see: they're judgment-proof. But the verdict still sends the enviro wackos a message: pick on hard-working rural Americans at your own risk.

[Jackknife]

Some of these wackjobs need to be jailed.

[IonImplantGuru]

I celebrate the rancher's victory, but the sad thing is that the rest of us are paying for it with our tax money.

Huh??? How do you figure this? The award is not against a government entity, so how do you figure taxpayers are paying for it; seems to me it's donators to this enviro group (and their insurance company) who will pay for the award. (Hopefully, eventually, after lots of appeals, as other posters have noted.)

[TigersEye]

Chilton, a fifth-generation rancher, ...

Five generations of ranching? That right there tells me they are not destroying the land. Only liberals crap in their own well. Bankrupt these eco-terrorists!

[glock rocks]

ping!

[kstewskis]

good news ping

[TigersEye]

To prove the material was defamatory, Chilton not only had to show it was false and hurt him, but also demonstrate the activists knew they had lied or shown "reckless disregard" for the truth. Such evidence of malice had to be "clear and convincing."

The bar would have been lower had Chilton not been ruled a public figure by Judge Richard Fields. An ordinary citizen would only have to show the center was negligent through a preponderance of the evidence.

This was a solid win.

[McGavin999]

It's about time! They need to keep going after these groups. They think they can say and do anything as long as it's in the name of the "environment". Most of them live in the city and have NEVER worked the land. They have NO idea.