Posted on 07/11/2015 8:23:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Looking for justice? Move to Mexico. When it comes to looking to the U.S. courts for protection, you may have a better chance if you’re from south of the border.
Kathryn "Kate" Steinle was shot dead on July 1, allegedly by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican felon who was in the U.S. illegally. Lopez-Sanchez would have been deported but for the fact that San Francisco is a "sanctuary city," which is why officials there chose to release him and ignore an ICE detainer. This effectively put him back on the street. And yet, if Steinle's family tries to sue the city for this travesty, it may be thrown out of court.
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IIRC California law precludes a person from suing the police for not enforcing the law.
But that’s not quite the same as suing a city for violating the law.
So would it be okay for a city to declare sanctuary for traditional marriage?
this week there has been a lot of ass covering specifically to thwart the machinations of plaintiff’s council when the discovery begins
Enter San Francisco At Your Own Risk
In Oregon Sanctuary counties came about ostensibly to protect them from suits by ILLEGALS for being held in jail without “cause” or too long
Donald Trump should’ve visited the family to offer condolences which would have assured him additional millions of voters.
Not very smart of him to ignore this opportunity.
It's called the principle of "mitigation of damages." Under this common-law principle, the plaintiffs in a case could have any damages diminished or eliminated if it can be demonstrated that the person in question (the victim, in this case) knew the risks involved in the incident and had an opportunity to mitigate or eliminate them, but chose not to.
In other words, the city's strongest defense in this case would be: "It is commonly known that we have been a 'sanctuary city' for years. If this was a problem for the victim, she should have lived somewhere else."
Therefore, I would suggest to the plaintiff's council to look into the deaths caused by illegals given refuge in SF, and what the city did about it.
Yep, expecially since SF ASKED the Feds to send him there where they hooked him up with some BLM guy’s gov’t gun.
SF has a notorious case of 3 in one family killed by an illegal released from it’s jail system when Newsom was mayor. No cranes. Now newsom looking to be governor.
Yes
Yes... in this day and age people sue cities all of the time when their offended, or feel disenfranchised.... yeah.. these people have had loss and damage every bit as much as others who sue have had. In reality MORE. I’d award them the money.
Maybe they could sue the Feds since it was their gun he used to kill their daughter.
I don’t know why the State Department doesn’t issue a warning to Americans about visiting these “sanctuary cities”.
What makes you think he did not offer them condolences?
But if he had shown up at their house, the voters would have been more impressed.
Don't stop with the city of San Francisco, sue the mayor, police chief and council members each BY NAME. Last. but not least, sue the illegal alien usurper in the white hut BY NAME for failing to enforce the properly, and legally, enacted immigration laws and statutes.
In a just world, yes. In California?
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