Posted on 08/17/2007 4:08:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A legal squabble in a lawsuit brought by Muslim imam passengers is escalating among lawyers over the question of who is being sued over their removal from a flight last year.
"John Doe" passengers are named as parties in the litigation for reporting suspicious behavior of the six men, which led to their removal from the flight. Employees of U.S. Airways and a Minneapolis airport are also targets of the lawsuit now proceeding through a federal court.
One of the attorneys representing the six Muslim men says they do not intend to pursue the passengers in litigation, but the Becket Fund, which is aiding the defendants in the case, says "John Doe" passengers remain listed as a party to the lawsuit and are still targets of the litigation.
Frederick J. Goetz, the imams' attorney in Minnesota, said the passengers are no longer included in the lawsuit, and referenced a footnote in one motion of several he filed on Aug. 2. The footnote says, "Plaintiffs also agree to strike paragraphs 21 and 22 of the first amended complaint and the dismissal of the parties named therein" — the paragraphs that identify unknown "John Doe" passengers who reported some of the imams' activities to flight attendants.
"The issue is moot. I don't know why [the Becket Fund] is grandstanding," Mr. Goetz told The Washington Times.
Pat Hogan, a spokesman for the airport, said its attorneys have not been alerted that the passengers have been released from the lawsuit filed on March 12.
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Obviously some of the John Doe’s will want to countersue the Flying Imams.
The fact that they’d ever even consider such a thing tells the story. I-slam should not be legal in America.
Are the CAIRists funding this action?
I wonder what it would take to get the imams names added as co-conspirators to the Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas? Now that would be comedy.......unless of course they are already on the list.
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Don’t know if they’re providing financial support, but they are backing them in other ways, for certain.
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Impressive Board of Directors......
You can’t sue an anonymous person unless you work for the entertainment industry.
Okay....you’re going to have to help me out with that one....
I’m a bit slow, tonight...
Where is the judge in this?
Sometimes this system we have makes me cry in frustration.
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The plaintiffs' failure to formally dismiss the passengers from the suit is "another sign that what they're really up to is trying to intimidate future airline passengers from coming forward with their suspicions," Mr. Hasson said.
The passengers should countersue for intentional infliction of emotional distress, harrassment, Christophobic hate speech and abuse of the legal process.
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