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A Win for Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation: EPA Held in Contempt Over Document Destruction
DC District Court ^
| 7/25/03
| Judge Lamberth - DC District Court
Posted on 07/25/2003 11:04:20 AM PDT by BCrago66
Click above for decision in PDF format.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: browner; epa; landmark; marklevin; x42
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:04:20 AM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: BCrago66
So which Clinton minion will go on trial for anything?
2
posted on
07/25/2003 11:07:47 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: BCrago66
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:08:06 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(please let my post be on an even number... small even/odd phobia here)
To: holdonnow
Yeee Haa!
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:09:35 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I am a partisan. Part right and the other part right.)
To: BCrago66
Nice!
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:10:18 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: BCrago66
bump
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:11:39 AM PDT
by
timestax
To: laweeks
I'm with you. So what? Nobody goes to jail. Nobody suffers financially. The government simply destroys documents that can be used against it with impunity.
The EPA will continue to waste taxpayer money, steal land, and prosecute people who unstop clogged culverts for "destroying wetlands".
It is a hollow victory at best.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:20:19 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: laweeks
OK now that I've actually read the decision, it looks like what fancy-pants people like the call a "pyrrhic victory." Judge Lamberth found the EPA in contempt, but didn't find sufficient evidence to find any of the specific individuals at the EPA or the Justice Department in contempt. So the rememdy - payment of attorney fees - will be borne by the taxpayer.
Oh well. Better than nothing I suppose, as it is now established that EPA did contumciously destroy documents in violation of a court order.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:24:45 AM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: BCrago66
Too bad someone isn't going to trial. Didn't humans do whatever they said happened? And who are those humans, and shy aren't they on trial? And if guilty, why aren't they going to go to jail?
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:28:18 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: BCrago66
I have worked with the EPA in the past and for the most part, they have no clue..
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:34:32 AM PDT
by
holyh2o
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