Posted on 06/11/2017 8:36:06 AM PDT by DFG
These are strange days. I seem to have been caught up in the so-called “travel ban” litigation challenging President Trump’s executive orders “Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.” Yesterday I was served with a letter and draft subpoena from one Tana Lin of the Keller Rohrback law firm’s Seattle office alerting me to my “document preservation obligations with respect to documents that are relevant or potentially relevant to this litigation.” Lin represents plaintiffs in Doe v. Trump, venued in the federal district court for the Western District of Washington.
Although this action has been stayed pending a ruling from the Ninth Circuit in the parallel Hawaii v Trump “travel ban” case, Judge Robart has authorized Lin to notify me of her lawsuit and seek my confirmation by June 15 that I will preserve potentially relevant documents until such time as she sends me a formal subpoena or the lawsuit is formally resolved.
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The federal courts are not `super legislatures’.
Well Scott, Perhaps you should tell them that you gave a copy to a “friend” and then deleted the originals. It seems to have worked for Wuthering Heights...
Yes federal courts are super legislators and the have been for quite some time. It really got going with the Warren Court. The federal courts are the gravest threat to freedom this nation has ever faced. It used to be the supreme court was the problem but now every little chuck and waddle federal judge is a dictator. And as we know the vast majority of the decisions the tin pot dictators make stand and are never reviewed.
In her country, all journalists are subject to search and seizure by the sacred State.
Guess that's why she's confused about how ours is supposed to work.
Sounds awfully close to the notorious SLAPP (”A strategic lawsuit against public participation”). Tie up the opponents in legal knots and thus suppress others who lack the resources to fight.
If I ever got such a letter, the very first thing I would do is ether destroy everything or, if I thought it might help me for some other stuff, put it in a safe deposit box, effectively “destroying” it for their purposes.
i.e. “Sorry lady. You’re late.”
THAT is a really good point.
Was used in California virtually always by Leftists to defeat any Right wing opposition though.
And while we’re at it, why is a private law firm acting as Plaintiff for a State? This suit was brought by the vile AG of Washington State, Bob Ferguson.
“SLAPP”
Here’s a classic example: California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative).
It was a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal aliens from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California.
Voters passed the proposed law at a referendum in November 1994. The law was challenged in a legal suit and found unconstitutional by a federal district court. In 1999, Governor Gray Davis halted state appeals of this ruling.
CA citizens/voters saw the court overturn the vox populi.
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