[ClearCase_guy]

I remember not too many years ago when there was an effort to bankrupt the KKK by taking them to court and making them pay huge damages. The goal was simply to destroy their organization through economic terrorism facilitated by the judicial system.

I wonder if that is what's going on here. The Boy Scouts seem to always win the cases, but the governments (paid for by our tax dollars!) keep relentlessly taking the scouts to court. It's got to be a financial drain -- and maybe that's the ultimate goal. Lord knows the government's pockets are deeper than the Scouts.

[pbear8]

Are they not being helped by the Pacific Legal Foundation?

We know one the the ships which was tossed out. The kids are better off near us rather than way too close to Berzerkley.

[Stone Mountain]

The Boy Scouts seem to always win the cases, but the governments (paid for by our tax dollars!) keep relentlessly taking the scouts to court.,

Actually, the Boy Scouts took the City of Berkeley to court...

[cavtrooper21]

Actually, in several of these cases, legal costs and the lawyer were donated by former Scouts! We take care of our own. If you have a problem with the Gubmint's use of your taxes, TELL 'EM!

[Libertina]

destroy their organization through economic terrorism facilitated by the judicial system
Already happening across thenatino to anyone who disagrees politically. Small businesses, unpopular political groups, mouthy US citizens of the conservative persuasion... Hmmm, if we could declare conservativism as a sexual "preference" we could probably make out like bandits! ;)

[BJungNan]

economic terrorism facilitated by the judicial system.

I wonder if that is what's going on here.

There is a real good defense to that type of economic assault: don't hire a lawyer. No lawyer, no legal fees. Your not required to have a lawyer.

And you can turn that approach on the party waging legal econmic war by calling their lawyer several times a week - not to harrass but to "work the case."

Run up their legal bill with every sort of legitimate request imaginable. Document every request and take special note of any failure to supply what you have asked for. If you go to court, make the case for postponment on the basis their side has not been forthcoming. You can play this out for a long, long time (and run up one heck of a bill - for their side).