ACORN in the courts

The American Thinker ^ | September 18, 2009 | Clarice Feldman

[Scanian]

Politico notes that a threatened suit by ACORN against O'Keefe and Giles would be a major mistake for the organization. Threatened criminal charges against them are being threatened by the ACORN workers involved:

[American Constitutionalist]

http://www.michie.com/maryland/lpExt.dll?f=templates&eMail=Y&fn=main-h.htm&cp=mdcode/7ec5/8d2e/8dc4/8dca

[American Constitutionalist]

http://www.rightgrrl.com/tripp/woods.html

[altair]

They have no standing to sue. In Maryland it is indeed illegal to tape a conversation without both party’s knowledge, except that ACORN’s business license wasn’t current there. No problem, they can just pay a fine and get it restored, except that they have lost any chance to sue someone while the license was not current.

[American Constitutionalist]

( Blacks Law Dictionary defines "wiretapping" as follows: )

" A form of electronic or mechanical eavesdropping where, upon court order, law enforcement officials surreptitiously listen to phone calls or other conversations or communications of persons. "

Wiretapping laws apply to 3rd party intercepts, not a person recording their own conversation with someone even if the other party didn't give consent.
Linda Trippe was recording her conversation with Monica Lewinsky with her OWN phone.
James Okeef and Hannah were using their own camera to record that sting at the ACORN office in Baltimore Maryland.

Remember the DUKE case and Nifong ????????

[American Constitutionalist]

In Maryland, it's illegal for a 3rd party to " Intercept " a conversation.
Linda Trippe was using her own phone.
If that was the case for phone calls that are recorded by those who own the phone illegal, then, phone call recorders in Maryland would be banned.
Has anyone ever had a phone call, the Phone Machine answers it while your on your way to pick it up ? .... even 30 seconds before you pick it up, the call was being recorded ?
How Maryland make it illegal if it was a phone machine that picked up a call and recorded it ?
Phone Machines in Maryland are legal.
James and Hannah was using their own cam, it was not a 3rd party intercept.

[Defiant]

I hope they have copies of the video stashed on dozens of servers, laptops, bank vaults and offshore locations.

[Defiant]

Have we ever had such an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote out of both the house and the senate, in such short measure before?

Just to twist the knife a little, Republicans forced a vote on HillaryCare, I think it was in 1994. The bill was voted down 98-0.

[American Constitutionalist]

HEY ACORN ? Remember the DUKE case and a over zealous prosecutor named NIFONG ????? ... yeah, we know you do.
According to Maryland wiretapping laws, it applies to electronic communications " INTERCEPTS " not recording, or taping.

[mojo69]

JAMES OKEEF HAS RESTORED MY FAITH IN THE YOUNGER GENERATION
ONLY IN THESE “LIBERAL TIMES” WOULD SOME IDIOTS WANT TO GO AFTER THE MESSANGER WHO FILMED WHAT ACORN IS ALL ABOUT
HOPEFULLY THE OTHER CORRUPT LEFT-WING ORGANIZATIONS WILL COME TO THE PUBLIC’S VIEW,SUCH AS HUD,APOLLO,ETC,ETC,ETC
OBAMA AND HIS RADICAL’S ARE THE MOST CORRUPT PEOPLE EVER TO HOLD OFFICE......FOR A LOOK INTO THE OBAMA’S PAST ,CHECK OUT DICK MORRIS’S BOOK CALLED “CATASTROPHE” (OBAMA’S SOCIALISM OF AMERICA) ALSO READ MICHELLE MALKIN BOOK ON OBAMA CALLED “CULTURE OF CORRUPTION”