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Civil jury fines rancher in illegal-alien dispute
The Washington Times ^
| 11/25/2006
| Jerry Seper
Posted on 11/25/2006 4:40:43 AM PST by peyton randolph
An Arizona rancher who has waged a five-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal aliens from crossing his property has been ordered by a civil jury to pay nearly $100,000 for a 2004 incident during which he confronted a family hunting on his land. Roger Barnett, 62, who began rounding up illegal aliens after he said they destroyed his property, killed calves and broke into his home, was ordered to pay Ronald Morales, his father, his two young daughters and their friend on claims of negligence, false imprisonment and emotional distress. ...
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aclu; aliens; crimaliens; frobls; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; openborders; reconquista; rogerbarnett
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator
To: peyton randolph
typo...should have been only one "la."
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:41:51 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
To: peyton randolph
Didn't Arizona just ban illegals from receiving punitive damages in lawsuits?
L
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:42:41 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: peyton randolph
***for a 2004 incident during which he confronted a family hunting on his land.****
His land? According to other reports this was GOVERNMENT LAND that he had merely leased from the government.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:43:47 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam --Dark age politics masquerading as a religion.)
To: peyton randolph
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:45:28 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I guess you are trying to say that if you rent anybody should free access to the place you rent!
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:45:54 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: peyton randolph
Where is Senator John McCain and Governor Janet Napolitano?
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:47:10 AM PST
by
ethics
To: ethics
Driving the 'Welcome Wagon"..
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:49:17 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Lurker
Didn't Arizona just ban illegals from receiving punitive damages in lawsuits?
Yes. Believe Prop. 102 passed by 74% of the vote. Unclear from the article but suspect the jury award was for compensatory, not punitive, damages.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:49:46 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
***I guess you are trying to say that if you rent anybody should free access to the place you rent!***
Not on GOVERNMENT LAND.
Too much public land has been locked up by those who merely rent it for grazing rights.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:52:39 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam --Dark age politics masquerading as a religion.)
To: peyton randolph
This is disgusting! A US CITIZEN upholds the law and detains ILLEGALS and is then sued and loses in a US court? Talk about a travesty of justice.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:52:45 AM PST
by
Hazcat
(Live to party, work to afford it.)
To: ZULU
***It was still AMERICAN SOIL - being violated by foreign invaders. ***
WRONG! These were AMERICAN BORN Americans OF LATIN extraction who had hunted for years on this GOVERNMENT LAND he was leasing.
They definitly were not illegals.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:55:32 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam --Dark age politics masquerading as a religion.)
To: peyton randolph
Unclear from the article but suspect the jury award was for compensatory, not punitive, damages. I'd love to hear the argument that being held for the authorities cost the plaintiffs 100 grand.
This one'll be overturned on appeal.
L
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:56:03 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: peyton randolph
How does it go?
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another...
I'm not sure how we could apply this concept to our special circumstance, of being ruled by a government that is subjecting us to an alien invasion, but the concept is there, ready to be reworked and re-applied once we figure out the correct way to put all the pieces together.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:58:34 AM PST
by
samtheman
(The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
If that is true (not illegals) then I stand corrected. It did not point that out in the article. It said his land was used by illegals etc so I assumed (I know, I know) that this family was as well.
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:59:46 AM PST
by
Hazcat
(Live to party, work to afford it.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
His land? According to other reports this was GOVERNMENT LAND that he had merely leased from the government. If you are caught breaking into somebody's rented apartment, is it a lesser offense than breaking into somebody's owned home. How about if it's mortgage? Will you argue that it's really the bank's house?
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posted on
11/25/2006 5:01:25 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
You must enjoy this travesty, are you one of the open border scum who like criminals who overstay their visas or those who just invade our country?
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posted on
11/25/2006 5:01:53 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Here is the passage that intimates that they family was illegals
The Morales family had sought $210,000 damages in a lawsuit sponsored by two civil rights groups, the Border Action Network and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accused Mr. Barnett of vigilantism and abusing the illegal aliens he detained. The jury settled on a damage award of $98,000.
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posted on
11/25/2006 5:03:48 AM PST
by
Hazcat
(Live to party, work to afford it.)
To: peyton randolph
Tort reform would be to keep illegal aliens out of the civil courts.
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posted on
11/25/2006 5:05:27 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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