JohnRich 4 #1 February 9, 2012 News:City Writes $399,950 Check To Gun Rights Group Earlier this month, the city of Chicago wrote a check for $399,950 to the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights group located in Bellevue, Wash. The check was a reimbursement for legal fees the foundation incurred in the McDonald v. Chicago case, which resulted in the United States Supreme Court overturning the city’s ban on handguns. “The city lost that action,” said Julianne Versnel, the foundation’s director of operations. “Because it was a constitutional civil rights case, the city was required to pay the cost...”Full story: 5 NBC Chicago The check: http://www.tedcruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rahmcheck.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #2 February 9, 2012 QuoteNews:City Writes $399,950 Check To Gun Rights Group Earlier this month, the city of Chicago wrote a check for $399,950 to the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights group located in Bellevue, Wash. The check was a reimbursement for legal fees the foundation incurred in the McDonald v. Chicago case, which resulted in the United States Supreme Court overturning the city’s ban on handguns. “The city lost that action,” said Julianne Versnel, the foundation’s director of operations. “Because it was a constitutional civil rights case, the city was required to pay the cost...”Full story: 5 NBC Chicago The check: http://www.tedcruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rahmcheck.jpg Looser pays should be the law for all cases"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,078 #3 February 9, 2012 >Looser pays should be the law for all cases Wow. The prop-8 people are going to owe tens of millions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #4 February 9, 2012 Quote>Looser pays should be the law for all cases Wow. The prop-8 people are going to owe tens of millions. Aint over yet but, yes, that is the chance you take"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #5 February 9, 2012 QuoteLooser pays should be the law for all cases Sure as hell would make a lot of people not file a suit. Imagine paying OJ's legal bill when he was acquitted back in 95 or whenever it was. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matthewcline 0 #6 February 10, 2012 QuoteQuoteLooser pays should be the law for all cases Sure as hell would make a lot of people not file a suit. Imagine paying OJ's legal bill when he was acquitted back in 95 or whenever it was. Or motivate one to do a good job and not "play" a Prosecutor on TV! MattAn Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beowulf 1 #7 February 10, 2012 That would restrict lawsuits to only the people who can afford it. There by excluding the poor regardless of the merits of a law suit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kd5xb 1 #8 February 11, 2012 I'm still waiting for Ray Nagin to have to pay for HIS violations of gun rights...I'm a jumper. Even though I don't always have money for jumps, and may not ever own a rig again, I'll always be a jumper. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #9 February 13, 2012 ...and pays for one of their cops shooting a man while off-duty: Jury awards $1.35 million to family of man slain by police "A federal jury awarded $1.35 million to the family of a man shot to death by an off-duty Chicago Police officer after a confrontation at a Northwest Side bar" http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/10541196-418/jury-awards-135-to-family-of-man-slain-by-police.html ...and pays for mistreating protestors: Settlement in 2003 Chicago protest lawsuit "The city of Chicago has hammered out a $6.2 million settlement over a class-action lawsuit that accuses police of unlawfully arresting more than 700 people during a 2003 Iraq war demonstration..." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57374191/settlement-in-2003-chicago-protest-lawsuit/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #10 February 15, 2012 The Second Amendment Foundation collects another check: SAF collects on another lawsuit, this time from Omaha, Neb. "The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation has banked another check to cover legal fees in a federal gun rights lawsuit, this one for $12,000 from the City of Omaha, NE..." Story: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/saf-collects-on-another-lawsuit-this-time-from-omaha-neb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
