« New 4473 | Main | List of Supreme Court 2A cases awaiting cert »
Interesting Suit over Seattle Protests/Riot/Takeover
Story here. A number of Seattle businesses sued the city over its allowing the blackshirts to take over a part of downtown for a month, and in fact providing city aid (city-provided barriers to block vehicular traffic, etc.) to the efforts. I'd expect the city to plead the doctrine that a government has no legally-enforcable duty to protect its citizens (so much for the idea that police will be there to protect you).
The federal judge dismissed the businesses' equal protection claim, but allowed their other three to proceed, and they are interesting, someone put serious thought into this:
"The plaintiffs' three other claims allege that by allowing CHOP to operate for a month before police eventually shut it down, the city unlawfully took their private property for public use with no compensation, restricted their ability to fully use their property to conduct business and failed to protect the businesses from a danger of the city's own making."
3 Comments | Leave a comment
...Once more the Federal courts have a chance to crush the Commies with liability. And make the Officials who connived with this criminal enterprise liable too. Joint and severable. Let the Jury decide how much punitive damages the Major owes to the City she sold out. Make her pay for not faithfully executing the Oath she took.
I can't imagine the reasons (excuses!) for dismissing the equal protection claim. One side of the street receive one response while the other side receives another one, and the government orders it. They not only fail in their duty, they actively aid an insurrection. This was not just an individual (as in Warren vs DC), it is a whole section of the city. If that still counts as an individual, at what point does it become "society" at risk?
Links to filings once done would be great!