I hope that the lawyers that were counting on a multi-billion dollar payday are out on the window ledge as we speak.
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"I hope that the lawyers that were counting on a multi-billion dollar payday are out on the window ledge as we speak."
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2 posted on
02/04/2005 1:34:47 PM PST by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
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...federal law does not provide for the monetary "disgorgement" penalty the government is seeking... And it never will -- the feds would be hoist on their own petard in that case. If they had to "disgorge" all the money they have extorted and spent on buying the votes of favored groups, we would be walking on it with snowshoes.
3 posted on
02/04/2005 1:36:32 PM PST by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
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This lawsuit was started under Clinton/Jannet Reno and when Ashcroft became Bush's AG he wanted to drop the suit because he daid the courts wouldn't uphold it.
Congress put in a line item in the budget requiring him to continue with the suit.
Now, the day after he leaves office, the courts have agreed with him and stuck it to Congress.
So9
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Good Guys - 1
Tyrants - 17876120
5 posted on
02/04/2005 1:40:17 PM PST by
unixfox
(AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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7 posted on
02/04/2005 1:41:34 PM PST by
SheLion
(God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
To: Gabz
"The Gnatzis finally lose one" ping
8 posted on
02/04/2005 1:42:37 PM PST by
steveegg
(The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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I hope that the lawyers that were counting on a multi-billion dollar payday are out on the window ledge as we speak. And so do I!
9 posted on
02/04/2005 1:42:39 PM PST by
SheLion
(God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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the gov't will find a way to raise taxes to make up for the lost $billion$
12 posted on
02/04/2005 1:44:19 PM PST by
soccer_linux_mozilla
(I believe in the potential of Open Source software: Linux, Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice,etc)
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FOX just reported that this lawsuit was started under Janet Reno - when Ashcroft got into office he stopped it saying the govt didn't have the right to ask for that money in the first place.
Somebody in the Congress added the suit back into some legislation - funding the suit, and the DOJ was forced to follow through.
I'm glad to see that Ashcroft's opinion was correct from the begining.
15 posted on
02/04/2005 1:59:28 PM PST by
CyberAnt
(Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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HA HA HA HA! Take that you jackass lawyers and gubmint busybodies!
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The Fed/Guv taxed cigs for years not to discourage smoking, but for the $$$. The Gov't should be held 25% liable, not on the collecting end of a lawsuit. Same goes for the States.
17 posted on
02/04/2005 2:02:58 PM PST by
Waco
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That's good. They are making a legal product and meeting a demand. And my pipe tobacco is expensive enough (really feel sorry for cigarette smokers)...
18 posted on
02/04/2005 2:11:17 PM PST by
Lexinom
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23 posted on
02/04/2005 3:59:37 PM PST by
onyx
("First you look to God, then to Fox News" -- Denny Crane, Republican...lol.)
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lawyers-on-the-window-ledge bump!!!
24 posted on
02/04/2005 4:30:26 PM PST by
thoughtomator
(How do you say Berkeley California in Aramaic?)
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This would have put the tobacco companies out of business and ended the nonsmokers tax reduction act of the century.
26 posted on
02/04/2005 7:35:42 PM PST by
Raycpa
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31 posted on
02/05/2005 7:01:30 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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42 posted on
02/07/2005 5:06:30 AM PST by
Meldrim
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On FOX, Judge Napolitano said this all would end up in the Supreme Court where it would all be thrown out.
Tobacco is a legal product. If states want "money" they can tax it more....which most seem to be doing.
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45 posted on
02/07/2005 6:48:13 AM PST by
CDHart
(The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
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Good! Government has no business being the mafia! We have Italians for that and they HATE the competition.
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