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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-13-07 07:52 PM
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4. I think their case is weak against the protesters
this is the beginning of this lawsuit, which I think they will win
These two that ejected them were volunteers.


Two people who say they were ejected from a taxpayer-financed
appearance by President Bush in March because of an antiwar bumper
sticker filed a federal lawsuit here on Monday, charging that event
staff members and federal employees broke the law.

The suit, filed in Federal District Court by lawyers for the American
Civil Liberties Union, could transform what had been a public-relations
thorn for the Bush administration into a legal thicket. A.C.L.U. lawyers said
they would pursue in particular the question of who gave orders to
workers at the event, held March 21 at the Wings
Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver.

The suit could also put the United States Secret Service
in the position of having to point fingers, because one of the
crucial elements of the suit, A.C.L.U. lawyers said, could come from Secret Service testimony.

Martha Tierney, a Denver lawyer who is working in cooperation with the A.C.L.U., said at a news conference that the agent in charge of the Secret Service's Denver office, Lon Garner, told the plaintiffs and their lawyers that a bumper sticker saying "No More Blood for Oil" was the impetus for the ejections.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1122-06.htm


However
I am more interested in the President's three civil lawsuits.

In sworn legal depositions, bouncers Michael Casper and Jay Bob Klinkerman
for the first time named the White House officials
who they say ordered the Denver Three to be excluded.

http://www.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_5341085
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