How Lawyers Took Ranch For Illegal Aliens [legal brief in pdf format]

Michael Savage.com ^ | August 23, 2005

[TomGuy]

JIM HOGG COUNTY, TEXAS

FATIMA DEL SOCORRO LEIVA MEDINA and EDWIN ALFREDO MANCIA GONZALES, IN THE DISTRICT COURT

Plaintiffs

V.

RANCH RESCUE TEXAS, an unincorporated association, JOSEPH SUTTON, BETTY SUTTON, TORRE JOHN FOOTE a/k/a JACK FOOTE, HENRY MARK CONNER, JR., and CASEY JAMES NETHERCOTT,

Defendants

[TomGuy]

I.
NATURE OF THE ACTION

This is a civil action to recover damages for injuries inflicted upon the plaintiffs by persons associated with Ranch Rescue, a group of vigilantes that operate as an illegal paramilitary unit. Their unlawful actions, motivated by racial animus, intimidate Latino travelers in the border region and put them at risk and in fear of being assaulted, detained, or worse. Joseph and Betty Sutton, landowners in Jim Hogg County, Texas, and Ranch Leiva et al. v. Ranch Rescue et al.

Rescue, under the leadership of Jack Foote, authorized Ranch Rescue associates to conduct armed paramilitary assaults against Latinos traveling across the Suttons’ property. After plaintiffs were found on the Suttons’ property, Ranch Rescue associates chased them, surrounded them, pointed weapons at them, unlawfully detained them, physically searched them, assaulted them and robbed them at gunpoint. Joseph Sutton later threatened to kill the plaintiffs. The actions were committed in furtherance of an unlawful conspiracy directed by Foote and Joseph Sutton to frighten, unlawfully detain, and intimidate Latinos found on or near the Suttons’ property and were carried out with the encouragement and assistance of both Joseph Sutton and Foote. Plaintiffs seek actual and exemplary damages for the injuries they sustained.

Link to full brief in PDF format

[Digger]

If Bush/Klintoon & daddy Bush would have been responsible TO THE TAXPAYING CITIZENS then this would not have gotten so far out of hand. What else would one expect from this "Two-Party Cartel".

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping!

[fr4tad]

He is talking about it onair right now. Giving the lawyers names, addresses and phone numbers.

[Stellar Dendrite]

infidel ping!!

[OneLoyalAmerican]

He is talking about it onair right now.

Sure miss Savage on XM.

[dennisw]

The ranch owner (Nethercotte?) did not contest the civil suit. As far as I can tell he screwed for good. How can there be an appeal when he didn't contest this civil suit the first time around?

These are the new owners

[andyk]

I know this is probably a bad idea to mention, but if anyone's interested, Savage is hitting this topic right now.

[Stellar Dendrite]

he couldn't appeal it because his mom mortgaged her house to pay for his crminal trial, and he couldnt afford to pay for civil suit

[Stellar Dendrite]

duh...correction..i mean he couldnt fight the civil suit, not "he coudlnt appeal it"

[sasafras]

"If Bush/Klintoon & daddy Bush would have been responsible TO THE TAXPAYING CITIZENS then this would not have gotten so far out of hand. What else would one expect from this "Two-Party Cartel"."

Damn straight! - Clinton and Bush Sr/Jr are really one and the same. Neither could care less about our welfare as long as they feed their own special interests to screw the law abiding American citizen.

[dennisw]

I figured his non defense of the law suit was due to lack of money. Ain't it amazing how illegal immigrants are always all lawyered up? And for free!

[Stellar Dendrite]

i want the WHOLE story...lets hear about how that commie gov of AZ used the PATRIOT act against this man calling him a terrorist

[SolidSupplySide]

Latino travelers in the border region

Now I'm a big fan of open borders for peaceful immigrants, but this certainly a strange term to describe the plaintiffs. (And it appears over and over in the document)

Plaintiffs

1.Plaintiff FATIMA DEL SOCORRO LEIVA MEDINA (“Leiva”) is aLatina woman who at all times relevant was a traveler in Jim Hogg County, Texas.

2.Plaintiff EDWIN ALFREDO MANCIA GONZALES (“Mancia”) is aLatino man who at all times relevant was a traveler in Jim Hogg County, Texas.

[the_rightside]

Absolute Scum!

[TBP]

These lawyahs need to be put in jail, and not a nice jail.

Someone should go to court to overturn this. Is Legal Watch available? Or Landmark?

And since we now have no resect for property rights, let's send some illegals to Morris Sleaze's house and see what he does. Then let's sue to get his property.

Typicla liberal hypocrite SOB.

[Desron13]

This whole case reeks of setup. The legal goons at the Southern Poverty Law Center are desperate to shut down the citizen groups attempting to take back control of our borders. I fully expect the Minute Men to be targeted in a like wise manner. We have completely lost control of our legal system. Time is growing short to avoid total tyranny. This guy was targeted and the case shopped to a fellow traveler judge, read little Napoleon in a black robe. He was targeted by careful selection as someone who had no resources to fight the court action. That way the scum at the SPLC new they could spin it and say "Look, they knew they were guilty because they didn't even bother to fight the civil case". Duh! that because you pieces of dirt had already bankrupted them in the criminal case. What a travesty! I am sick, disgusted and outraged by all of this! It's only a matter of time before they come after people like us here at Free Republic. We've already seen the first volleys with McPain Finkgold.

[mtbopfuyn]

Latino travelers in the border region

Exactly. And they conveniently left out that pesky word, ILLEGALS. Gypsies are travelers, illegals are trespassers.