Posted on 08/25/2006 4:41:30 AM PDT by Peach
The much-publicized Plame civil suit is off to a bad start. The plaintiffs moved for permission to leave their residential address off the complaint. Judge Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia gave the motion short shrift:
Plaintiffs ask that, ”[o]ut of respect for [their] privacy in light of their public visibility,”
Pls.’ Mot. at 1, they be excused from complying with rules requiring that each party to a civil action include his or her full residential address in the caption of the “first filing by or on behalf of” the party. See L. Civ. R. 5.1(e)(1), 11.1. This Court does not readily grant relief from the ordinary application of such rules, nor does the Court believe that a plaintiff’s mere invocation of Case 1:06-cv-01258-JDB Document 5 Filed 08/24/2006 Page 1 of 3 privacy interests and public prominence, without more, warrants an exception to rules that apply to all other litigants. Moreover, the implicit premise of plaintiffs’ motion—that their residential address is confidential—is questionable. In less than thirty minutes, the Court was able to ascertain plaintiffs’ residential address from multiple publicly available sources, including a database of federal government records. Indeed, an attorney who filed this motion on plaintiffs’ behalf has stated in a nationally circulated newspaper that he is plaintiffs’ next-door neighbor, and the residential address of that attorney also is readily ascertainable. Based on the current record, then, the relief plaintiffs seek is not warranted. [emphasis added]
Case 1:06-cv-01258-JDB Document 5 Filed 08/24/2006 Page 2 of 3 Clarice Feldman 8 25 06
Since it is okay to give out Rumsfeld's summer home address, why doesnt the news media give us the wilson-plame address? The public has a right to know!
or he/she tapped into the fabled rapid response FR research database.
What are they afraid of? Publicity? Threats?
And not just Rumsfeld's address but the NYT helpfully pointed out where the security cameras were.
They eat up the publicity. Love it.
Judge gives a beatch slap! The whole purpose of the suit is to get publicity for better book sales.
Kinda hard to state that you're a covert agent when a 30 minute search yields your home address.
The other reason for this suit is to feed their needy liberals with more vomit of hatred and victimization.
These people remind me of my exwife.....always playing the victim no matter how much they have to lie.
Heh.
So these people outed their own address and now want it a secret again? Sounds like there is a pattern of behavior here.
You have to love the irony that these 'outed' covert agents expect the courts to hide a facet of their identity and they get a 'no special treatment' reply.
[o]ut of respect for [their] privacy in light of their public visibility
Am I the only one to whom it appears as if the loss (disappearance) of their privacy is caused by their "public visibility" which they themselves created?
told him she was a secret agent this court has reason to laugh to the point of tears..yada yada'
Heh.
Wasn't that a riot to read last year? I guess covert doesn't have the meaning it once had.
Live by the sword...
Oh, you're not the only one.
These people clearly don't mind looking foolish.
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