Posted on 09/24/2009 3:03:57 PM PDT by holy joe
ACORN has announced its lawsuit against filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, and columnist Andrew Breitbart for what it alleges was "illegal videotaping" of ACORN employees in Baltimore. So the head of the group has gone from blasting the filmmakers, then praising them for helping ACORN uncover corruption, to now, suing them.
The suit was filed in the Circuit Court in Baltimore where sympathetic juries are available. In addition, ACORN wants preliminary and permanent injunctions to stop any other pesky videotapes from coming out. It also is seeking damages that could be as high as $7 million.
The video shows now-fired ACORN employees giving tax advice to O'Keefe and Giles, who are posing, as their minimal costume budget will allow, as a pimp and a prostitute.
ACORN has a dream team of four major mouthpieces: Andy Freeman, A. Dwight Pettit, Arthur Schwartz, and C. Justin Brown.
The group and their attorneys are going to regret filing this lawsuit.
So far, ACORN employees have been featured on videos assisting criminal behavior in three other states and Washington, D.C. This suit, by necessity, is only for the Maryland recordings.
ACORN is going to try to nail the defendants on Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code sections 10-402(a) and 10-410, which require two-party consent to all electronic surveillance.
But the suit will open ACORN up to cross-complaints and a broad discovery process that will include the production of e-mails, correspondence, memos and internal documents, as well as depositions of employees. Haven’t these people ever heard of Whitewater and Ken Starr?
O’Keefe and company will have a powerful procedural move to make...
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they got more video....
I will have to make special Discovery Popcorn.
This is gonna be Good.
Do we know who is representing O’Keefe and Giles? I have to assume there is a long line of prestigious lawyers from the Right ready to do this pro-bono.
O’Keefe said, Bring it On!
the best defense is an offense. The media did not cover until Acorn struck back.
that will be the story.
As another Freeper said....”what about all those CAMERAS on poles and buildings that are everywhere, recording our every move”??
exactly
“If we’d known all it took was a half-naked 20-year-old, we’d have done this a year and a half ago.”
Words to live by...
Dateline (NBC), 60-Minutes (CBS) and 20-20 (ABC) have all done the same thing.
remember when the alphabet news used to do hidden camera journalism?
Like showing what mechanics really do to your car, or what grocery outlets really do to your food, or what hotels do when you’re not looking?
Dunno if ACLJ is interested (Jay Sekulow) but if they get him... watch out Acorn.
I would expect the first thing Acorn does is request the judge put a seal on all discovery. So we may have to wait for our popcorn.
Morons. By bringing the suit the defense now gets to DEPOSE anyone in ACORN. In deposition, the plaintiff can be asked ANYTHING about ANYTHING in their entire life. Anything! Refusing to answer or lying is a FELONY. MAN,would I love to be at Bertha Lewis’ deposition! The tape of the deposition becomes the private property of the Defendant! Let the good times roll!
Yes!!
They have taken the Bait and Discovery is going to kill them.
EXACTLY! STOP ACORN......NOW!! DECAPITATE IT!!
Also, discovery will force ACORN to open its books to the defendants and the court. IDIOTS!
This is too good!!!! WooHoo!!!
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