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Lawsuits Are The Answer


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2021 May 22, 3:36pm   74,986 views  494 comments

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I'm convinced that the right way to fight back against mandates and censorship is lawsuits.

Corporations in particular are afraid of lawsuits because they have a lot of money. Sue them first.

But it's also useful to sue the government when they are violating our rights.

A nice suit started by https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.org/ :

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT Court

AMERICA’S FRONTLINE DOCTORS

PETITION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

vs.

XAVIER BECERRA, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND John & Jane Does I-V; Black & White Partnerships; and ABC Corporations I-V,

Defendants.

Dear Friend,

Today America’s Frontline Doctors filed a petition for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Secretary of the U.S. Department of HHS, Xavier Becerra.

Here’s why:

Children are not guinea pigs: There is a statistically zero percent chance of young people dying of COVID-19. To promote an investigational product that has no long-term studies and no animal studies, to pressure parents and teens to use an experimental product that has not been fully approved by the FDA breaks all of the rules of medicine and the HHS’ own goal to protect Americans.

The expansion of the Emergency Use Authorization (EAU) for younger children is all risk and no benefit. HHS is ignoring the science and the data.

HHS is betraying its mission to, “enhance the health and well-being of all Americans…and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.”

Sadly, millions of parents are being misled by HHS Secretary Becerra and the FDA, and we are calling on the Federal Courts to stop Becerra and compel HHS to suspend the promotion and rush to administer a vaccine that has not been fully tested and approved.

COVID 19 Vaccine Side Effects: We’ve never seen this level of side effects for any vaccine without the FDA taking action. The Rotavirus vaccine was canceled for 15 cases of non-lethal side effects and the Swine Flu vaccine was canceled for 25 deaths. But now, by the CDC’s own data, we are seeing a 12,000 percent increase in deaths with these vaccines and they’re still promoting this to our kids.

Support the Science: Under the age of 20, the survivability rate for COVID-19 is 99.997 percent. More than 4,000 deaths have been tied to the administering of COVID-19 vaccines in the last four months as opposed to 1,500 total in the previous ten years for all vaccines.

This last fact alone should be enough to STOP this dangerous vaccine. But HHS, the FDA and the CDC are ignoring the science and they are putting the lives of our children on the line.

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314   AmericanKulak   2023 Jun 27, 3:59pm  

richwicks says


You can't just blame the government and profit driven corporations.

Now that California is getting ready to pass a law CPS'ing kids from parents who won't affirm Gender Claims... I think Washington State already has it in law.
315   Patrick   2023 Jul 3, 1:47pm  

https://thetexan.news/houston-doctor-files-federal-lawsuit-against-fda-over-ivermectin-statements/


Houston Doctor Files Federal Lawsuit Against FDA Over Ivermectin Statements
Houston’s Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and two other doctors say the FDA is illegally interfering with their ability to practice medicine.
HOLLY HANSEN
JUNE 2, 2022

A group of doctors has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the FDA’s attempts to block the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
Filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in Galveston, the complaint notes that the FDA has approved ivermectin for human use since 1996 for a multitude of diseases. But after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency began publishing documents and social media posts to give the impression that the anti-viral drug was dangerous for human consumption.

The plaintiffs, Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul E. Marik, and Robert L. Apter, argue the FDA acted outside of its authority and illegally interfered in their ability to practice medicine by publicly directing health professionals and patients to not use ivermectin.

Bowden, a Houston-area Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist, asserted during a virtual press conference Wednesday that she had kept 3,900 COVID patients out of the hospital by using ivermectin and other medications, but that FDA statements interfered with her work.

“The FDA smear campaign against ivermectin is a daily hurdle I must overcome,” Bowden said. “Still two and a half years into this, this is still a hurdle. Pharmacists won’t dispense it, insurance companies won’t pay for it, and I have patients who want reassurance that it is safe to take. I tell them it’s actually the safest medication I’ve ever prescribed.”

FDA publications and actions cited by plaintiffs include a 2021 social media post with pictures of a horse captioned “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” and a link to an agency article entitled, “Why You Should Not Take Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.” According to the plaintiffs, the original article stated the FDA’s official position against using ivermectin without acknowledging that doctors could legally prescribe the drug.

The complaint cites U.S. code stating the FDA “may not interfere with the authority of a health care provider to prescribe or administer any legally marked device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship.”

Marik, an internist and critical care doctor certified by boards in the U.S., Britain, Canada, and South Africa, told reporters that ivermectin is a highly effective drug for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and one of the “safest [drugs] on this planet.”

Saying there were more deaths associated with the use of Tylenol than ivermectin, Marik said the FDA’s “illegal” attempts to block the use of ivermectin could be responsible for between 400,000 and 600,000 COVID deaths. He added that there have been “a thousand times more deaths” related to COVID-19 vaccinations over the past year and a half than ivermectin-related deaths over the last 25 years. ...

“The FDA’s illegal pressuring of doctors to not prescribe, and the pharmacists to not fill prescriptions of ivermectin for COVID-19 is a direct cause of the threats to my medical license,” Apter told reporters. “I am being investigated by three state medical boards, each threatening my medical license based on complaints from pharmacists that I have prescribed ivermectin for COVID-19.”

“In all these cases the patients did very well.”

Apter said in each investigation, the pharmacists cited FDA statements and publications on ivermectin use for COVID-19.

Plaintiffs are asking the federal courts to declare the FDA actions or opinions regarding off-label use of ivermectin unlawful and to enjoin the agencies from further interference.


That's not enough.

The people at the FDA who lied about ivermectin over and over must be prosecuted.
316   AmericanKulak   2023 Jul 3, 2:45pm  

Apr. 27—A federal judge has ruled that a defamation suit filed by a Marietta-based immigration activist against the Southern Poverty Law Center can proceed.

D.A. King, the founder and leader of the Dustin Inman Society, is suing the Southern Poverty Law Center over its designation of his organization as an "anti-immigrant hate group."

The Dustin Inman Society advocates for tougher enforcement of immigration laws and on its website states that it "believe(s) the fundamental duty of the federal government is to enforce federal laws, to secure American borders and protect the American people from unauthorized and uninspected border crossings."

The group is named for Dustin Inman, a Georgia teenager killed in a car crash — law enforcement said the crash was caused by an immigrant living in the country illegally. (the illegal driver was drunk, which of course Yahoo! took out of the story)

The group says it does not oppose legal immigration and that its board includes legal immigrants.

The SPLC, meanwhile, alleges on its website that the Dustin Inman Society "poses as an organization concerned about immigration issues, yet focuses on vilifying all immigrants."

According to the suit, the SPLC first designated the Dustin Inman Society as a hate group in 2018. In 2011, an SPLC representative told the Associated Press they had not labeled it a hate group since its tactics have "generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them," and has rather been "working on ... legislation through the political process."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marietta-immigration-activist-suing-splc-223700751.html

Suing the SPLC should be reflexive. If anybody knows a credible org dedicated to suing the SPLC, let me know.
317   richwicks   2023 Jul 3, 5:54pm  

AmericanKulak says

richwicks says



You can't just blame the government and profit driven corporations.

Now that California is getting ready to pass a law CPS'ing kids from parents who won't affirm Gender Claims... I think Washington State already has it in law.


I would have killed for my dog, any parents should be ready to kill for their kid.
318   Misc   2023 Jul 4, 12:30am  

How soon are we gonna see a Lawsuit against the Biden administration to stop the Student Loan fraud.

You see the Federal student loan program was sold to Congress as a revenue positive program. That's right the government was supposed to make money on it while providing funding for those seeking to improve themselves through getting a college education.

Well, the Department of Education lied about the profitability of the program. Looks like the government lost money on it, and that was before the Biden giveaway of a smaller percentage of income needed for loan "repayment" and a shorter period before the loan was discharged if these minimal payments were met.

When the loan repayments restart (even with these lower amounts to be paid) the default rate is gonna be enormous.

There is gonna be a massive Reeeeeeeeeee when the free money is cut off.
319   HeadSet   2023 Jul 4, 9:25am  

Misc says

There is gonna be a massive Reeeeeeeeeee when the free money is cut off.

Are you saying the federal student loan program will end?
320   richwicks   2023 Jul 4, 9:36am  

Misc says

When the loan repayments restart (even with these lower amounts to be paid) the default rate is gonna be enormous.


The only way to default on student debt since, I think the 1990's, is by dying.
321   Booger   2023 Jul 15, 2:27pm  

https://aflegal.org/hotline/

As part of our new AFL Center for Legal Equality, America First Legal is creating a new digital HOTLINE for citizens to report violations of their rights. If you have been victimized by woke politics in the workplace or at school, if you have been illegally discriminated against in the workplace or in search of a contract or government benefit under the Orwellian guise of “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” please contact us.
322   richwicks   2023 Jul 17, 7:09pm  

HeadSet says


Misc says


There is gonna be a massive Reeeeeeeeeee when the free money is cut off.

Are you saying the federal student loan program will end?



There is NO possibility the student loan program will end.

The purpose of the federal student loan program is to make permanent slaves. The loans are NOT meant to be paid back. They are designed to keep the individual in permanent servitude. They are considered an asset by the Federal government, and compose part of this nation's "wealth".

People wringing their hands that loan forgiveness will happen, are pretty naive if they are over 40.

In most cases, the loans HAVE been paid back. The government prints money, gives it IMMEDIATELY to the university for the student loan, so the University is already whole. Interest then comes into play, and frequently the student has already paid off the loan many times over.
323   Misc   2023 Jul 18, 12:48am  

Nope, the Student Loan Program is a net loss for the Federal Government.

Last year it was projected that the loss was about $200 billion over the preceding 25 years.

Biden has since increased the program loss figures by his manipulation of the repayment amounts, forgiveness calculations, etc.

Basically Biden has come to the correct conclusion that if a loan cannot be repaid...then it won't be repaid. --- This could become mute during a hyper-inflation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2022/07/31/student-loans-will-cost-government-200-billion-loss-shocking-report-says/?sh=3bf18fa74910
324   Patrick   2023 Jul 24, 11:06am  



original link


I admire his persistence, but when the courts themselves are corrupt, asking them for justice seems futile.
327   Ceffer   2023 Jul 28, 10:45am  

Judges and police who are Freemasons, Knights of Columbus, etc. should be required to register as foreign agents, and required to declare their affiliations publicly and loudly before any official proceedings or arrests.
328   Patrick   2023 Jul 29, 3:02pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/manmade-saturday-july-29-2023-c-and


🐭 Yesterday, Reuters ran an encouraging story headlined, “Florida judge rules against Disney in feud with DeSantis.”

The lawsuit was filed by the new oversight district created by Governor DeSantis to manage Disney’s Reedy Creek area. The oversight district has sued to cancel a bunch of last-minute “backroom deals” that Disney made with itself to try to thwart oversight.

Yesterday the Florida judge denied Disney’s motion to dismiss, so the lawsuit will continue. Dismissal is the first major test of a lawsuit and is the gate plaintiffs need to survive in order to start discovery. Disney is not going to enjoy discovery over their skulduggery.

This is not Disney’s separate federal lawsuit arguing Florida’s new law violates Disney’s corporate First Amendment rights, and claiming Florida deleted its special tax district as punishment for politicking on behalf of LGBTQIA++ issues.

Let’s get that discovery going.
329   Patrick   2023 Jul 29, 4:08pm  

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/food-service-giant-sued-over-white-men-need-not-apply-program


A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees.

Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California.

The company had more than 280,000 employees and $20.1 billion in revenue in 2019, according to its LinkedIn profile. One of the world’s largest employers, the company has thousands of employees in California and counts among its clients Dodger Stadium, San Francisco International Airport, Uber, Snapchat, Netflix, Disney Studios, and NBC Universal. ...

Compass created a program it called “Operation Equity” in March 2022, a purported diversity program that offered qualified employees special training and mentorship and the promise of a promotion upon graduation, according to the legal complaint that was filed in Rogers v. Compass Group USA Inc.

But participation in the program was restricted to “women and people of color.” White men were not allowed to participate and receive the associated benefits of training, mentorship, and guaranteed promotion.

By calling it “Operation Equity,” the company “used a euphemistic and false title to hide the program’s true nature.” The program would more accurately be called the “White-Men-Need-Not-Apply” program because it is an example of “‘outright racial balancing,’ which is patently unlawful,” and is the kind of program “promoted by people … who harbor racial animus against white men,” according to the legal complaint. ...

“Not only was she trying to do the right thing by standing up to this, but she was also trying to protect Compass Group because Compass Group was doing something illegal. And so she was standing up to this injustice, and as a result, she was fired.”

Ms. Rogers is seeking financial compensatory damages for discrimination and retaliation. She is also asking for a court order requiring the company’s senior management in human resources to participate in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Fair Treatment training, classes, and oversight to make sure that the company does not discriminate and retaliate against other employees the way it did with Ms. Rogers.
331   Patrick   2023 Aug 2, 11:41am  

https://summit.news/2023/08/02/ramaswamy-wins-lawsuit-against-world-economic-forum-after-being-labeled-a-young-global-leader/


Ramaswamy Wins Lawsuit Against World Economic Forum After Being Labeled A ‘Young Global Leader’

Republican candidate “explicitly rejected their ridiculous award”

Ramaswamy, who is running a presidential campaign, explained that he “explicitly rejected their ridiculous award,” two years ago and that Klaus Schwabb’s outfit “repeatedly failed to remove my name despite escalating demands. So I sued them. And we just succeeded.”

He claimed that “I’ve been the leading opponent in America of the World Economic Forum’s agenda.”
332   Patrick   2023 Aug 3, 10:28am  

https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/jul/29/former-evergreen-schools-teacher-who-brought-maga-hat-to-staff-training-settles-case-for-400k/


Former Evergreen schools teacher who brought MAGA hat to staff training settles case for $400K
9th Circuit ruled in December that former Wy’east Middle School principal violated his First Amendment rights

A former Evergreen Public Schools teacher who alleged retaliation by his principal after he brought a “Make America Great Again” hat to a staff-only training reached a settlement of $400,000 in the case.

In December, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Caroline Garrett, then the principal at Wy’east Middle School, violated Eric Dodge’s First Amendment rights by alleging the hat was inappropriate given the setting. The incidents occurred on two occasions just before the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the first of which was during a staff-only cultural sensitivity and racial bias training hosted by a professor from Washington State University.

The settlement was reached on June 22 with the Schools Insurance Association of Washington, a property and liability risk pooling program for school districts with enrollments in excess of 2,000 students, of which Evergreen is a member. The funds were paid for by the association on behalf of Garrett.
333   Patrick   2023 Aug 3, 1:53pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-sues-leftist-group-campaign-scare-advertisers-twitter/


Elon Musk Sues Leftist Group over Campaign to ‘Scare’ Advertisers Away from Twitter


https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/NV3GMHQ/X_Corp_a_Nevada_Corporation_v_Center_for_Countering_Digital__candce-23-03836__0001.0.pdf


1. Defendants Center for Countering Digital Hate, Inc. (“CCDH US”) and Center
for Countering Digital Hate Ltd. (“CCDH UK,” collectively “CCDH”) -- activist organizations
masquerading as research agencies, funded and supported by unknown organizations,
individuals and potentially even foreign governments with ties to legacy media companies --
have embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform. CCDH has
done this by engaging in a series of unlawful acts designed to improperly gain access to
protected X Corp. data, needed by CCDH so that it could cherry-pick from the hundreds of
millions of posts made each day on X and falsely claim it had statistical support showing the
platform is overwhelmed with harmful content.
2. CCDH intentionally and unlawfully accessed data it sought regarding the X
platform in two ways. CCDH US, as a registered user of X, scraped data from X’s platform in
violation of the express terms of its agreement with X Corp. CCDH also convinced an unknown
third party -- in violation of that third party’s contractual obligations -- to improperly share login
credentials to a secured database that CCDH then accessed, and retrieved information from, on
multiple occasions without authorization. CCDH, in turn, selectively quoted data it obtained via
those methods. It did so out of context in public reports and articles it prepared to make it
appear as if X is overwhelmed by harmful content, and then used that contrived narrative to call
for companies to stop advertising on X.
3. CCDH’s underhanded conduct is nothing new. It has a history of using similar
tactics not for the goal of combating hate, but rather to censor a wide range of viewpoints on
social media with which it disagrees. CCDH’s efforts often rely on obtaining and intentionally
mischaracterizing data in “research” reports it prepares to make it appear as if a few specific
users (often media organizations and high profile individuals) are overwhelming social media
platforms with content that CCDH deems harmful. CCDH uses those reports to demand that
platform providers kick the targeted users off of their platforms, thus silencing their viewpoints
on broadly debated topics such as COVID-19 vaccines, reproductive healthcare, and climate
change. In this manner, CCDH seeks to prevent public dialogue and the public’s access to free
expression in favor of an ideological echo chamber that conforms to CCDH’s favored
viewpoints.
334   Patrick   2023 Aug 4, 1:10pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/rfk-jr-files-lawsuit-against-google-over-repeated-censorship-youtube/


RFK Jr Files Lawsuit against Google over Repeated Censorship on YouTube

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed a lawsuit against YouTube’s parent company Google over the streaming platform’s repeated efforts to censor him.

Kennedy’s lawsuit was filed Wednesday and accuses Google of violating his First Amendment rights.

RFK Jr. contends his speeches and interviews were expunged inappropriately from the platform, despite his status as a candidate in the 2024 election.

Kennedy is the lead challenger to President Joe Biden in the Democrat primary.

However, as the presidential primary elections loom, RFK Jr. predicts that the censorship efforts will persist as the establishment colludes to cut him off from voters.

Examples of YouTube’s censorship include Kennedy’s speech at Saint Anselm College, as well as his interviews with Jordan Peterson and Mike Tyson, all of which were deleted by the platform.

The lawsuit argues these content removals are a blatant disregard for his constitutional rights and echo a worrying trend of suppression across the breadth of the campaign.

Kennedy’s legal argument centers on allegations of overreach and the weaponization of government.

The lawsuit condemns the Biden administration for orchestrating a censorship campaign attempt to silence dissenting voices.

“This complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear,” the filing states.
335   Patrick   2023 Aug 5, 5:00pm  

https://palexander.substack.com/p/boom-australian-govt-sued-over-covid


A class action lawsuit has been lodged in the Federal Court of Australia against the Australian Government, the Department of Health and Aged Care Secretary Dr. Brendan Murphy, and the Deputy Secretary of Health Products Regulation Group Adjunct Professor John Skerrit.

The suit, which includes over 500 claimants, seeks compensation for injuries allegedly sustained from COVID-19 vaccines, according to Sydney Criminal Lawyers.

The court documents allege that the respondents’ promotion and use of approved COVID vaccines amount to negligence and/or misfeasance.

The claimants argue that this negligence or misfeasance led to various damages, including personal injury, healthcare costs, additional expenses, economic loss, and non-economic loss.

The lawsuit asserts that the government owed a duty of care to the public, which was breached by not adequately informing about vaccine risks, not thoroughly researching vaccine impacts, and creating repercussions for those who chose not to get vaccinated.

These breaches, they claim, resulted in injuries.

The suit also alleges civil misfeasance in public office, where government officials intentionally inflicted injury or acted with the knowledge that their conduct could cause harm, Sydney Criminal Lawyers notes.

The government’s power to act in this manner will likely be a focal point of this part of the claim.

Despite the lawsuit, the government has not formally responded.

However, a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) safety report from April stated that the adverse risks from COVID vaccinations are extremely low, with a rate of just 0.2%.

The report emphasized that “The protective benefits of vaccination far outweigh the potential risks.”

The class action is led by Queensland GP Melissa McCann, who raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding to initiate it.

Three representatives named in the suit allege severe injuries, including myopericarditis leading to open heart surgery, a debilitating neural disorder, and severe spinal cord inflammation resulting in the inability to walk unassisted.

The lawsuit comes amid criticism of the Australian Government’s handling of vaccine information and injury reports.

Critics argue that the government and health authorities silenced doctors and downplayed potential vaccine side effects, while mainstream media largely ignored personal accounts of vaccine injuries shared on social media.

The Australian Government established a compensation scheme for vaccine injury claims, but it has been criticized as “not fit for purpose.”

Claimants have reported slow responses, high costs for additional medical tests, and complex requirements, including the need for a medical professional to certify a link between a person’s condition and a vaccine reaction.

As of April 12, Services Australia had received 3501 applications and paid 137 claims totaling over $7.3 million.

The lawsuit also raises questions about the ability of victims to sue vaccine manufacturers.

In the U.S., legislation protects vaccine manufacturers from liability for COVID vaccine-related injuries.

In Australia, compensation was initially set up for two vaccine manufacturers, AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland vaccine from Seqirus.

It remains unclear whether other manufacturers, including Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax, have been granted similar protections.
336   Patrick   2023 Aug 6, 9:14am  

https://twitter.com/MSPTroopers/status/1687577535062704128



State Police Association of Massachusetts
@MSPTroopers
“Earlier today, I had the distinct honor and privilege of informing seven of our Troopers, who have been suspended without pay due to Executive Order 595, that they would be returning to work. This fight began in October of 2021 when the Association filed a grievance on their behalf. Since then, the Association has been committed to making these members whole. Through this lengthy and grueling grievance and arbitration process, the Association has remained steadfast in our fight to right the injustices of the Baker Administration.

Executive Order 595 was more than just an affront to the hard-working members of the Mass State Police, it was an attack on organized labor and the rights of our members. Governor Baker and his administration refused to listen or work with our Association, but today we can no longer be ignored. These members, whose religious convictions were trampled, and who were left without pay or benefits, now can choose to return to work and will be made whole through retroactive pay and earned seniority. ...
337   Patrick   2023 Aug 9, 6:51pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/doctor-coalition-sues-california-medical-board-insisting-white/


Doctor Coalition Sues California Medical Board for Insisting ‘White Individuals Are Naturally Racist’

Two doctors, one black, and the other an Iranian-American, have sued the Medical Board of California for its requirement forcing a continuation of medical education courses that are focused on “implicit bias.” ...

The lawsuit points out that all state-licensed physicians must complete 50 hours of continuing medical education every two years.

It describes “implicit bias” as the “idea that medical professionals unconsciously treat patients differently based on their race or other immutable characteristics,” as reported by The Messenger.

In a Fox News Op-Ed, Singleton blasted the California law for what it truly is.

“While the law doesn’t say it, the accusation is clear: White people are oppressors and Black people are oppressed. Nationwide, implicit-bias trainings for medical professionals routinely discuss systemic racism, White supremacy, and other race-based attacks on classes of people,” she said.

“I don’t care that I’m not the target. This still represents the kind of racist thinking that was starting to fade 50 years ago. I don’t want to be taught this evil, nor do I want to teach it to others,” she added.


OK, that's a doctor with integrity!
338   Patrick   2023 Aug 12, 12:33pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/with-billions-lost-investors-start-suing-woke-companies-for-their-dei-and-esg-programs




All in all, the company's commitment to its DEI and ESG goals cost it billions in sales and market cap, eroding the value of its brand.

Now, investors that have seen their portfolios take a hit are suing the company for misrepresenting those goals to investors.

Investor Brian Craig filed a lawsuit against Target Chief Executive Brian Cornell, and the Target's board of directors.

Craig claimed Target's board misstated its oversight of "social and political risks" to the company, focusing on the wishes of progressive activist investors and failing to account for potential backlash from customers.

And Target is not the only brand in the proverbial crosshairs.

There's also Anheuser-Busch and Mulvaney-Gate.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered an investigation into the state's holdings of Anheuser-Busch stock.

It turns out that Florida's pension fund is a massive shareholder in the company.

It appears to me that AB InBev may have breached legal duties owed to its shareholders, and that a shareholder action may be both appropriate and necessary. To protect BA and the retirees of Florida from losses attributable to AB InBev's disregard of those duties, all options are on the table.

Mulvaney-Gate has not just lost the company a bunch of money. It has cost Florida's civil servants' pension funds a lot of money, and the state is looking to sue over the company's representation of DEI and ESG.

It remains to be seen how successful these lawsuits will be, but it's certainly another tool in the kit of dismantling corporate Marxism.
339   Patrick   2023 Aug 14, 12:33pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/indigenous-american-giving-monday


The New York Post ran a hopeful and encouraging story yesterday headlined, “COVID victims’ families sue NYC-based EcoHealth for ‘funding, releasing’ virus.”

Over the last couple years, military contractor and bioweapons-moneysink EcoHealth Alliance and its shady president, Peter Daszak, have been shown to be up to their dirty little necks in the early pre-pandemic coronavirus gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. EcoHealth received — and continues to receive — millions from U.S. health agencies like the NIH for very questionable scientific bioresearch conveniently located outside the country. I’m not saying EcoHealth is a deep state laundry service; I’m just saying.



Anyway, the Post story reported on a lawsuit I’ve long hope to see filed, and now one has hit the docket. On August 2nd, four New York families with relatives who died from covid sued the Manhattan-based NGO that funded coronavirus research in China, alleging it “created” the bug — and “released it, either intentionally or accidentally.”

The lawsuit directly alleges two types of injury. First, that EcoHealth and Daszak knew the virus was dangerous and “capable of causing a worldwide pandemic,” but failed ensure necessary safety measures were followed. Second, Daszak helped obscure the virus’s lab-engineered origins, preventing effective treatments from being developed when they could have been useful.

I think a negligence lawsuit against EcoHealth has legs, and should survive dismissal so as to get to do discovery. EcoHealth can’t claim it didn’t know the research was dangerous. It will have to argue that (1) its particular research project didn’t create covid, and/or (2) it wasn’t responsible for safety at the Wuhan lab. Only the second point could result in a dismissal if the court agreed.

To the extent Daszak was personally involved in the grotesque covid origins coverup, he could be tagged with individual liability that might stick. That claim could be a little more difficult, because — unless I’m missing something — they’ll still have to show Daszak had a duty to these plaintiffs, and that effective treatments could plausibly have been developed.

The lawsuit was filed by excellent small-firm attorney Patricia Finn, who was one of the best and smartest pro-freedom lawyers in New York during the pandemic. I wish her good fortune, that a good judge is assigned to her case, and that discovery is fruitful. Patty, let me know if I can help.
340   Patrick   2023 Aug 14, 12:35pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/indigenous-american-giving-monday


💉 Australia’s Umbrella News reported yesterday on a July lawsuit filed Down Under seeking to enjoin all further distribution of the modRNA jabs, headlined “COVID vaccines and your DNA: What the science tells us (and what it doesn’t).”

The case was filed in the Federal Court of Australia by Victoria doctor and pharmacist Dr. Julian Fidge. It alleges that covid shots violated Australian law by containing unlicensed genetically-modified products that can, in fact, enter the cell nucleus and permanently change a person’s DNA.

As you know, the CDC and corporate media have ceaselessly sworn on a tall stack of witchcraft grimoires that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY for the artificial modRNA to ever get into a cell’s nucleus because Science! Shut up! Anti-vaxxers! Hesitation!

But two subsequent developments have fueled Dr. Fidge’s lawsuit. The first was a study (reported in C&C) clearly showing reverse transcription of the modRNA into liver cells in a Petri dish. The reverse-transcription happened fast, too; the modRNA practically sprinted into the liver cell DNA. Almost like it was designed to do it. The second development was Kevin McKernan’s recent discovery of unlawful amounts of unexpected e-coli DNA in the shots, which McKernan is generously referring to as “contaminants,” since he doesn’t know for sure whether it was intentional.

As described in previous C&C posts, extra e-coli DNA in any kind of shot is ‘no bueno,’ as they say down at the border. Full DNA strands get into the cell nucleus even easier than modRNA does. If the cell nucleus is like a swimming pool, it’s not quite like a crowd of kids wearing e-coli t-shirts leaping into the water at a pool party, but it’s close.

So far, the Australian government has defended against the lawsuit’s claims by laughably pointing to corporate media “fact check” websites and the CDC’s Q&A website. I guess when you’re the government you can just use websites and you don’t need any published studies. That’s Science™!

We’ll see. There was a time in the early pandemic, when mask mandates were first rolling out, that my regular refrain became: “more and better lawsuits.” It’s beginning to feel like we might be at that kind of inflection point again.

Go lawyers, go.
341   Patrick   2023 Aug 15, 1:26pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/indicted-x4-tuesday-august-15-2023


The Hill ran a very encouraging story last week headlined, “Southwest to appeal judge’s ‘religious freedom training’ order.”

Last Monday, Texas U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr entered an order sanctioning Southwest for violating a previous order. The case revolved around the illegal firing of a Southwest flight attendant, who was laid off because she posted a pro-life tweet on her social media. A jury found Southwest and the flight attendant union were guilty of violating the attendant’s free speech rights and religious liberties, and awarded her $5.1 million dollars, which was later reduced by the judge to $800,000.

As part of the original decision, the judge ordered Southwest to notify all its employees, to make sure they know about their religious freedom rights under Title VII. But Southwest and its lawyers tried to circumvent that order, and instead of following the judge’s instructions, sent a watered-down note to employees implying Southwest had been found innocent, and failed to mention their religious liberty rights or Title VII.

So the judge sanctioned Southwest and included two interesting provisions. First, the judge ordered Southwest’s three lawyers to attend “religious freedom education” training provided by the Alliance Defending Freedom. The Hill described the ADF as “a Christian conservative legal advocacy group,” a sign of how upset that part of the order has made liberals.

Liberals are the ones who force conservatives to go to reeducation training, not the other way around, silly.

The judge also wrote out an exact notice that he ordered Southwest to send to its employees, to make sure they get the correct instructions this time.

So of course, instead of complying with a little training and a one-paragraph notice that could be emailed to employees at zero cost, Southwest is spending tens of thousands of dollars on appealing the sanctions order and the underlying judgment. “We plan to appeal the recent court order and are in the process of appealing the underlying judgment to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Southwest said in a statement Wednesday.

Good luck. The Fifth Circuit was reliably pro-freedom during the pandemic, issuing some of the best anti-mandate orders in the country. District judges have a lot of freedom to sanction parties that violate orders. It could have been much worse, including jail time for contempt. A little training and a note to employees seems like the minimum a judge could do when a company refuses to follow its orders.

As to Southwest’s appeal of the underlying judgment, it is well known that appeals of jury verdicts are the most difficult types of appeals to win. Appellate judges hate disturbing all the work that a jury invested in listening to witnesses and reviewing evidence and so forth. So I don’t predict the appeal will be well taken. I predict that the flight attendant’s lawyers will soon be getting even more of their fees paid by Southwest. But we’ll see!

Judge Starr was a Trump appointee. So.
342   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Aug 15, 2:44pm  

Patrick says

So of course, instead of complying with a little training and a one-paragraph notice that could be emailed to employees at zero cost, Southwest is spending tens of thousands of dollars on appealing the sanctions order and the underlying judgment.

A small price to pay to defend Southwest’s DEI score.
344   Patrick   2023 Aug 17, 11:57am  

https://merylnass.substack.com/p/breaking-dr-meryl-nass-sues-maine


Dr. Meryl Nass Sues Maine Medical Board Over Suspension, Alleges Board Violated Her First Amendment Rights
345   Patrick   2023 Aug 19, 1:44pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/handwashers-saturday-august-19-2023


If you have a Facebook account, you are entitled to share in a $725 million dollar settlement, so don’t neglect submitting your claim, if you can hold your nose long enough.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit about Facebook sharing users’ private information without their consent. It’s legit, here’s the FTC website announcing the deal.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2012/08/ftc-approves-final-settlement-facebook
346   Patrick   2023 Aug 23, 11:03am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/brief-struggles-wednesday-august


Newsweek ran a highly encouraging story yesterday headlined, “Conservative Journalist Gets $300,000 After 'Antifa' Assault at Protest.”

Andy Ngo, the terrific editor-at-large of The Post-Millenial, filed a civil lawsuit in 2020 after he was assaulted by three members of "Antifa.” The attack happened while Andy was covering a protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, in late May 2019, purportedly organized by a group called "Rose City Antifa.”

The lawsuit alleged that three Antifa members—Katherine Belyea, Madison Allen, and Joseph Evans—attacked Andy during the protest. Evans, who is totally not suffering from undiagnosed mental illness, has since legally changed his name to ‘Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy.’ I did not make that up. If you can believe it, Schott-Deputy started the fracas by sucker-punching Andy. Ms. Allen then piled on by hitting Andy with a sign, and Ms. Belyea threw a milkshake at him.

The three hooligans failed to appear for a virtual court hearing yesterday, so Multnomah County Circuit Judge Chanpone Sinlapasai found the three youths civilly liable for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, ordering them to pay Andy a total of $300,000 in damages. Schott-Deputy’s lawyer, who did attend, tried to argue that his client was unable to appear due to being homeless, and at the time the lawsuit was originally served, Schott-Deputy was doing time for an unrelated prison sentence (so he couldn’t have been properly served).

But the judge overruled the lame excuses, citing the length of the trial and that the suit was initially filed back in 2020.

Progress! Keep the lawsuits coming.
347   HeadSet   2023 Aug 23, 5:10pm  

Patrick says

“Conservative Journalist Gets $300,000 After 'Antifa' Assault at Protest.”

Nice, but not really a hit. Those three antifa clowns are flat broke. What needs to happen is that antifa higher-ups need to be sued. Otherwise, antifa just gets broke clowns to do the stuff antifa could be sued for.
348   Patrick   2023 Aug 24, 12:32pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cruel-and-unusual-thursday-august


The Wall Street Journal ran another uplifting, counter-revolutionary lawfare story Tuesday, headlined “Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms.” The sub-headline explained, “Ed Blum’s organization accuses firms offering fellowships for diverse candidates of racial discrimination against straight, white men.”

Ed Blum started the American Alliance for Equal Rights two years ago, advocating to end “affirmative-action.” Separately this summer, in a case involving Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of race-conscious affirmative action at colleges and universities.

Fueled by that ruling, earlier this month the Alliance sued an Atlanta-based venture-capital firm fund that only supports Black small businesswomen. The lawsuit accused the VC firm of unlawful racial discrimination. On Tuesday, the Alliance filed two more lawsuits, this time against two prominent democrat-connected law firms, Perkins Coie and Morrison & Foerster, that only give fellowships to diversity candidates.

According to the story, the law firms’ fellowship positions are open only to applicants who are ‘students of color,’ ‘students who identify as LGBTQ+,’ or ‘students with disabilities,’ and other similar wacky categories that have nothing whatsoever to do with legal skill, and which include five-figure starting bonuses and salaries right out of law school starting at $200,000 and up.

Straight white men need not apply, regardless of law school grades, accomplishments, or capabilities. So.

Blum’s newest lawsuits accuse the two Big Law firms of violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bars racial bias in private contracts.

You might wonder why a giant law firm would disregard the best candidates, and instead hire people based on skin color or atypical sexual preferences, who barely passed law school. Don’t the clients object? Don’t clients want the best lawyers working on their cases?

Not when your biggest customer is the government. When your biggest customer is the government, you hire the lawyers that the government wants. If the government doesn’t want smart lawyers, but only lawyers of a certain color or who have sex a certain way or with certain types of people, then you hire those lawyers.

Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once famously said, “whenever you see a distortion in the market, look for the withered hand of government.”

Well. There it is. Right there.

Best wishes to Ed Blum for his terrific counter-revolutionary work, and we hope to see him (or his lawyers) arguing at the Supreme Court soon.
350   Patrick   2023 Aug 30, 10:27am  

From the above:


California mom Jessica Konen settles landmark victory against Spreckels Union School district for $100,000 after she claims her daughter was 'socially transitioned'
Jessica Konen said her daughter Alicia, 11, was told by Buena Vista Middle School that she was upset because she didn't know who she 'truly was inside'
Single mom Konen accused teachers of encouraging her daughter to think she was a trans boy when she was at the school in 2019
READ MORE: California SUES school district that required teachers to notify parents if their child changes their gender identity or pronouns
351   Patrick   2023 Aug 30, 11:01am  

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/29/former-morgan-stanley-exec-sues-company-claiming-he-was-fired-because-he-was-white-n574610


A former executive with Morgan Stanley is suing the company for discrimination, alleging he was let go and replaced with a Black woman with “significantly less experience and qualifications” as the part of the financial giant’s efforts to meet its diversity, equity and inclusion goals.

Filed Tuesday in federal court in the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit alleges that Kevin Meyersburg was unfairly terminated this spring from his role as managing director and head of executive services after three years with Morgan Stanley. According to the lawsuit, the executive who relayed the news to Meyersburg that he was being terminated expressed “concern” about the experience level of his replacement and “could not explain to Meyersburg why the decision had been made.”…

“This is an example of DEI run amok,” Meyersburg’s attorney, Louis Pechman, told The Washington Post. “Race cannot be a factor in employment decisions, period. Full stop.”
352   Patrick   2023 Aug 31, 11:34am  

https://notthebee.com/article/louisiana-man-wins-appeals-case-against-sheriffs-office-that-arrested-him-for-making-a-joke-about-covid


Louisiana man wins appeals case against sheriff's office that arrested him for making a joke about Covid...

On March 20, 2020, right when things began to be locked down across the country, Bailey posted this joke on his Facebook page:


SHARE SHARE SHARE ! ! ! !" Bailey wrote in an emoji-filled post. "JUST IN: RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE HAVE ISSUED THE ORDER, IF DEPUTIES COME INTO CONTACT WITH ‘THE INFECTED' SHOOT ON SIGHT….Lord have mercy on us all. #Covid9teen #weneedyoubradpitt.


This was a clear joke and reference to the movie World War Z starring Brad Pitt.

But the Sheriff's Office in Rapides did NOT find this joke funny.

Just a few hours after this post, a literal SWAT team showed up at his door and placed him under arrest for making a terroristic threat!

The post had no threat in it. It wasn't an instruction anyone would take seriously. It wasn't even really making fun of the Sheriff's department. It was just a silly "Everyone is scared of Covid!" joke.

Without a warrant, according to court documents, they arrested Bailey and locked him up with a $1,200 bond.

Over a Facebook joke.

Fortunately for Bailey, the DA decided not to prosecute him, surely realizing he had no case and that Warren was just making a joke.

But by that time, Warren's face had been plastered all over the news, he had been destroyed in the press, and called a threat. The Sheriff's Office, according to Bailey, really messed up his life.

Bailey decided he was going to go on the offensive, taking the case to court himself by suing the department.

In September 2020, Bailey filed a lawsuit alleging Detective Randell Iles and Sheriff Mark Wood violated his First and Fourth amendment rights.

The first court ruled on the side of the cops, saying that the post could be legitimately perceived as a terrorist threat.

But justice was still coming. In the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, a judge has finally ruled in Bailey's favor, overturning the lower court's ruling.

In Friday's ruling, the appellate judges declared that Bailey's Facebook post was not a threat and did not incite violence. The reference to Pitt's fictional character was a giveaway that it was not serious, the court said.

"The post did not direct any person or group to take any unlawful action immediately or in the near future," the judges wrote. " … at worst, his post was a joke in poor taste, but it cannot be read as intentionally directed to incitement."

The sheriff is now being ruled to have violated Warren's 1st Amendment right to free speech and 4th Amendment right by arresting him with no probable cause.

I'm a back-the-blue kind of guy, and it honestly helps the police's credibility when jokers like this officer are punished for pushing the envelope.

"It's a great victory for Waylon and for the Constitution," Field said. "It clearly lays out that police have to respect First Amendment rights online, and that they can't wantonly arrest people who make jokes about them."

Honestly, I am shocked that WaPo is writing this pro-First Amendment piece. But I am glad to see it.

Bailey isn't sure his life will return to normal, but said he hopes he will no longer fear his hometown's sheriff's office. He's still seeking money for damages and attorney's fees and an apology from the sheriff'soffice.

In my non-legal opinion, he deserves every cent from that department and a public apology from everyone involved.

Hopefully, this puts a fear into other vindictive sheriffs and police departments.
353   AmericanKulak   2023 Sep 4, 9:13pm  

X/Elon to sue Anti-Defamation League for ... Defamation of X/Twitter

https://patrick.net/post/1380049/2023-09-05-elon-goes-after-the-adl-suing-for

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