For those of you who have been following the progress of the case, the appellate court will hear oral arguments on November 25th (a few weeks from now). That will be over two years since the lawsuit was filed, in utter defiance of the District of Columbia’s anti-SLAPP law, whose purpose was exactly to prevent this kind of delay in dismissal of vexatious free-speech torts.
[Cross posted at Ricochet]
The ability for a vexatious litigant to drag out a case, with attendant legal costs, is one of the big problems with courts in the US.
Two years of significant costs in money and time with the threat of penalties should you lose, all for exercising the right to free speech just as Mann does publicly every day. Mann, claiming to defend his integrity, made many false statements because he isn’t concerned with integrity but rather using the legal system as a weapon against those who don’t back his cause enthusiastically enough.
This is part of the movements larger goals of stripping people of businesses and employment, imprisoning, or even executing those who are not sufficiently enthusiastic in support of the cause. And the cause isn’t the climate, http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/09/23/climate-movement-drops-mask-admits-communist-agenda/?singlepage=true
Justice delayed is justice denied, it’s like the D.C. court system is perverting the course of justice.
Over here that’ll get you 7 years.
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who conspires to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of justice in New Zealand.
Oh wait, that only applies to the average person, not the Gods of the justice system.
As bad as your situation is, it could be worse.
According to a report on Democracy Now, a 16-year-old New York teen spent nearly 800 days in solitary confinement after being accused — but never even tried, much less convicted — of stealing a backpack.