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« Unsealed court files in Jay Dobyn's case full of bombshells | Main | Judgment in Dobyns case »

More on Jay Dobyns case

Posted by David Hardy · 24 January 2015 08:46 PM

Got into the Court of Claims docket-- here's the ruling (pdf) in which the Court accuses the Department of Justice attorneys of having committed a fraud on the Court. That's the document which the Court recently ordered unsealed. The uppermost entry is sealed, but from the language -- "Until further order, the Clerk of Court shall not accept filings" -- suggests it's the order that the nine DoJ and ATF attorneys were banned from filing further pleadings in the case. It's a rather startling sanction -- get out of my court, NOW!

The judgment (the order ruling that Plaintiff won) is still sealed. But it must be pretty explosive. Here's the Court docket for that time period. Notice right after entering the judgment, the Court orders that copies of the judgment be served on the Attorney General, the DOJ Inspector General (responsibility to prevent fraud, waste and abuse) and the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility (charged with investigating ethics violations). I've never seen a court order anything like that.

UPDATE: here's more, from NYC legal blogger Arkady Bukh.

· BATFE

2 Comments | Leave a comment

CarlHungus | January 25, 2015 9:37 AM | Reply

Pardon my cynicism, but I can almost see Holder with a glass of bourbon, chuckling while reading the opinion. Maybe I just don't think they care about what is legal and what is not anymore.

MamaLiberty | January 26, 2015 7:53 AM | Reply

Carl, the only relevant question is not legality, but authority. By what legitimate authority does anyone presume to call anything "legal" or "illegal?" Neither of those terms has anything but a loose association with what is RIGHT or WRONG, if you think about it. Too many people see the power of these people and mistakenly equate it to authority.

No human being has the authority to initiate force against another human being under any circumstances, nor to delegate such initiation of force. Every human being has the inalienable authority to defend their life and property by any means necessary.

The dangerous superstition - that any group of people, elected or otherwise, has legitimate authority to control the lives and property of others against their will - is the root of the problem. Politics, and the evil it can't help but produce, won't be eliminated until that authority is repudiated. Too many people allow themselves to be destroyed endlessly, simply because they have the mistaken idea that such bogus authority is legitimate and even somehow necessary.

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