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To: Ready4Freddy

OK, then these young men can also seek a monetary settlement with the state as well as the city. Pockets are getting deeper, it seems.


38 posted on 08/27/2007 5:06:02 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Not so much. States are much harder to sue than municipalities.

It took a SCOTUS decision to allow plaintiffs to sue municipalities (at least a far as the CRA of 1871 goes).

OK, then these young men can also seek a monetary settlement with the state as well as the city. Pockets are getting deeper, it seems. <.i>

43 posted on 08/27/2007 5:57:29 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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