http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307058,00.html.
the father of a fallen marine was awarded nearly $11 million wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family's privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the marine's funeral.. .
the jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages.
The news story you linked to is from 2007. This verdict has already been overturned. The Supreme Court in 2011 ruled 8-1 that the Westboro Baptist Church has the right to picket under the constitution. The case is Snyder v. Phelps.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/westboro-baptist-church-w_n_830209.html
jw leaks has published the respondent's brief prepared by rick simons in the case: candace conti v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york & fremont congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
(90 pages).
http://jwleaks.org/candace-conti/.
Thanks for posting, JWleaks!
So what happens on 1st July?
July 1st is the date the WTS reply brief is due. It's a shorter brief where they are able to respond to the arguments in this latest brief. Then it will be fully briefed, and an oral argument date will be set.
washington -- a narrowly divided supreme court ruled monday that police can collect dna from people arrested but not yet convicted of serious crimes, a tool that more than half the states already use to help crack unsolved crimes.. this dna sample will of course go into a huge database similar to fingerprints.. .
I don't see how swabbing someone's mouth is much different than a fingerprint. It's an investigative technique - it would be silly to need to convict someone first to take their DNA. The whole point of the DNA evidnce is to identify criminals and to convict. If there is sufficient legal grounds to arrest someone, I don't have a problem with it. I think being able to find out if someone who is arrested for a minor crime might be responsible for unsolved more serious ones is a greater concern than avoiding state databases.
there was a convicted murderer that became jw in my old congregation.
actually he committed manslaughter, he killed another guy in a bar fight.
i think he served 15 years in prison.
This guy is (or at least probably still is) a witness.
has the jehovah's witness computer data base number totaling 23,720 child molesters on file in patterson, new york created a public nuisance by keeping the names secret ?.
that question, is basically before the court,regarding roman catholics.. .
in the first lawsuit under a new minnesota law that allows victims of child sexual abuse to bring claims decades later, accuses the archdiocese of saint paul and minneapolis and the diocese of winona of negligence for allowing a known pedophile to continue working with children for years.. the plaintiff, identified as "doe 1," seeks a court order to force the church to release an internal list of "credibly accused child molesting priests," and accuses the church of creating a public nuisance by keeping the names secret.. .
Well, even if there is credible information that they have such a list with that number of names, if the list only includes those who have been accused at some point or another, they would probably be liable to a bunch of people for defamation if they published the list.
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unless an extension is requested..
I believe it means that they didn't file their opposition brief timely, and they get 15 days to cure - just like the WTS did in March.
please, can anyone help update with this google search?
it could be a legal issue that might have escaped our attention.. .
[pdf]appellant's opening brief - public citizenwww.citizen.org/documents/hadeed-carpet-cleaning-v-doe-appellant-... may 7, 2013 watchtower bible & tract society v. ... www.fhdlaw.com/html/corporate_reputation.
Scott, in the appeals brief you linked to, the party cites Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc’y v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150 (2002). It's a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case about door-to-door preaching and the First Amendment. I'm sure you've read about it at some point. It even has its own Wikipedia page.
please, can anyone help update with this google search?
it could be a legal issue that might have escaped our attention.. .
[pdf]appellant's opening brief - public citizenwww.citizen.org/documents/hadeed-carpet-cleaning-v-doe-appellant-... may 7, 2013 watchtower bible & tract society v. ... www.fhdlaw.com/html/corporate_reputation.
It's a case that has nothing to do with the WTBTS. One of the parties has cited a previous case involving WTBTS in their legal arguments, which is probably what caused it to show up in the google search.
what do participants here think about the case in florida of 18-year-old kaitlyn hunt who allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old?
cnn article: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/24/justice/florida-teen-sex-case/index.html.
marvin shilmer.
I don't agree with her attorney who says if it had been a boy and a girl no one would have paid attention to this. There are lots of 18 year old boys who have gotten into big trouble for having sex with 14/15 year old girls. It's kind of sympathetic, but you have to draw the line somewhere. My own view is if they are in the same high school together, it probably shouldn't be a felony for consensual sex. But wherever you draw the line, someone is going to get caught over it and complain the the law is too strict. If you make it 13, then the 18 year old who gets caught with someone who is 13 and 11 months is going to be the victim.
i don't know any details myself, but i was wondering what is the watchtower's timeline for getting completely out of brooklyn?
i know they have been building a new hq in patterson.
(i think) they have also been selling many brooklyn properties.
Should be sometime within the next generation or two.
