In your face, Spite House! Blue Ridge inn blockaded by Park Police reopens today [legal docs #80]

Twitchy ^ | October 9, 2013 | Staff

[abb]

The Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina created a publicity crap storm for the Spite House when operators were forced to close during the government shutdown. The inn sits on federal land and despite the owner’s attempt to defy orders from the Park Police, he was forced to close his doors and throw away spoiled food during the height of fall foliage season.

Today, the inn will reopen at 5 p.m. and all October reservations will be honored.

[abb]

http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/301786/57/Blue-Ridge-Parkway-Inn-Reopens-With-Federal-Approval

Jon Ostendorff, USA TODAY

Near MOUNT PISGAH, N.C. - A day after preparing to close for the rest of the season, workers at the Pisgah Inn were back on the job, and the inn’s owner claimed victory in his showdown over the federal shutdown.

Inn owner Bruce O’Connell said Wednesday the Interior Department of Interior agreed to let him reopen his lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway in exchange for dropping a legal complaint he had filed.

[don-o]

Great work!!

A M - Can we get an edit to the header to alert that the legal docs are in post 80?

[don-o]

bump

[don-o]

Still looking for news of whether he recovers damages caused by the illegal shutdown including legal costs.

[morphing libertarian]

I like that they didn’t shut down the Obamacare website service, but it shut itself down.

[don-o]

All I am finding is that he was “allowed” to reopen his business in exchange for dropping his legal action.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Ditto that.

[abb]

I checked Pacer early this morning, but nothing new had been filed. No order dismissing the suit, or any such paperwork.

I’ll look at it again later today and see if anything filed.

[cyn]

//Civil complaint

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/show_temp-pl.pdf

Motion for TRO and memorandum

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/show_temp1-pl.pdf //

Thanks for links. Will they be able to recover damages for loss of business and food they discarded? (I imagine —I hope! — some food was given away or otw salvageable. What a waste.)

[abb]

Here is email from NPS to Pisgah Inn’s attorneys.

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/nps-email.pdf

[don-o]

Email dated Friday 10/4 - then they filed on Monday 10/7.

[abb]

It’s obvious O’Connell contacted lawyers right away. Just looked on pacer website, no new filings since 10/8. I’ll pull down some more of the attachments to the motion for the TRO later.

[abb]

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20131010/NEWS/310100054/Folk-Art-Center-parkway-near-Asheville-reopens

ASHEVILLE — Taking a cue from the Pisgah Inn, officials at the Folk Art Center reopened the facility today.

The popular center on the Blue Ridge Parkway had been closed since Oct. 1 because of the federal shutdown. The center reopened at 9 a.m. today.

“We’re in the same scenario as them,” said Tom Bailey, managing director of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, which operates the center. “There are no federal employees here, so we decided we were going to open today.”

[abb]

http://whtc.com/news/articles/2013/oct/10/north-carolina-inn-reopens-after-challenging-government-shutdown-closure/
North Carolina inn reopens after challenging government shutdown closure

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/10/9/n-c-hotel-becomesbattlegroundovergovernmentshutdown.html
The man behind the shutdown: Is his district turning on him?

[abb]

An email from Parkway ranger to O’Connell.

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/brp-ranger-email.pdf

No new filings since 10/8.

[abb]

NOTICE OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/withdraw-tro-motion.pdf

[patton]

thank you

[PaleoBob]

So, I’m not the only one who remembers this. Ayers, Dohrn, Code Pink and other members of the Red Network were in Cairo for the party.

I’m just wondering when it will all come out. If it ever comes out, that is...

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It’s a good question but you probably already know the answer.

There is no independent media in operation in the USA — thus, these things will remain whitewashed. Just as they were in Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union—where there was no independent media.

In fact, since the McCarthy post-War era there has been no real independent media in the USA, rather, only a propaganda arm of the American leftist movement.

(Back in the 1940s and 50s there might have been a pretense of “objectivity” but today they don’t even bother pretending.)