lawsuit

If You Can't Win Straight-Up, Sue

From the Fort-Worth Star Telegram:

The Texas Democratic Party is warning that its March 4 caucuses could be delayed or disrupted after aides to White House hopeful Hillary Clinton raised the specter of an “imminent” lawsuit over its complicated delegate selection process, officials said Thursday night.

… Democratic sources said representatives from each campaign had made it clear they are keeping all their options open but that the Clinton campaign in particular had warned of an impending lawsuit.

Perhaps we can call in the 2000 Supreme Court and Catherine Harris to sort this one out…

RIAA Terrorism

The RIAA is at it once again. What can I say without sounding, well … paranoid. I’ll just say it this way – if we say nothing, do nothing, we deserve the country we inherit. Fair use. Fair use. Fair use. The internet is a public resource and monopoly through criminalization in the name of privatization for domination is an abomination (I AM Somebody).  Read more 

Menacing the Mercenaries

The battle Blackwater Security, the favored private militia of the favored few, fears most is coming nearer. From the NC News & Observer:

A North Carolina-based security contractor lost a federal appeal Thursday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the families of four men killed and publicly mutilated in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004
The decision by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., means that after a year and a half of motions and appeals, the lawsuit can move forward in Wake County Superior Court and that Blackwater Security Consulting will likely have to give up records and oral depositions about the incident, said Marc Miles, an attorney for the families.

That highlighted part is what they fear worst. And this news may be even better than it sounds..  Read more