This follows the successful practice used by the NAACP in civil rights cases in the 1960s. Wise move NRA.
Notice, the term used is "gun rights", not "gun control". Even in the leftist press the debate is shifting in favor of those who support the constitution.
If anyone does not know - The bankrupt Chicago Tribune is known as the “Lib-une.”
Bankruptcy Judge Approves $45.6M In Bonuses For Tribune Execs
By Peg Brickley
Of DOW JONES DAILY BANKRUPTCY REVIEW
* JANUARY 27, 2010, 11:14 A.M. ET
A bankruptcy judge Wednesday approved $45.6 million in bonuses for executives of Tribune Co. (TRBCQ) and advised the company’s leaders to roll the rest of its bonus requests into a Chapter 11 plan.
Judge Kevin Carey overruled protests from federal bankruptcy monitors and from a union representing some workers of the publishing and broadcasting enterprise, which filed for bankruptcy protection at the end of 2008.
He authorized the company to pump up the 2009 pay of 720 top executives, including Tribune’s top 10 leaders, in February.
The bonus program represents a historic high in cash payments for Tribune, said Bill Salganik, a representative of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.
Tribune leaders will collect more in cash bonuses for 2009, a year the company spent in bankruptcy, than they did in 2008 and 2007 combined, court documents say.
Carey said there was a “reasonable relationship between the plan and its goal of increasing the company’s chances of survival.” He said he would reserve a decision on two other bonus programs, suggesting Tribune incorporate them into the reorganization plan it is expected to file.
In combination with the bonus program approved Wednesday, the company’s two other bonus proposals would mean up to $67 million for Tribune’s leaders, nearly half of it for the 21 highest-ranking executives.
Salganik said the guild was pleased Carey did not approve the remaining two programs.
Tribune has more than $11 billion in debt to resolve in Chapter 11 and will pay off some of it with equity that was supposed to go to an employee stock-ownership plan if the company’s leveraged buyout had played out. Instead, Tribune filed for bankruptcy protection, unable to pay the interest on some $8 billion borrowed to carry off the LBO.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100127-711255.html?mod=WSJ_Deals_LEFTLatestHeadlines
The NRA didn't do this. From the article:
Financed by the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun-rights group based in Bellevue, Washington,....
The NRA is involved now. The NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation have shared numerous lawsuits since the Heller decision.