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Invader Tak · 06-20-2003, 07:57 AM

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VTboy � my advice is to get your information from legitimate scientific sources, and to look at all the cases. Ask yourself � does this data make sense in the context of what�s known, and done, in most places in the world?

Why let the facts get in the way of a good case of Righteous Indignation?

Jewel · 06-20-2003, 02:41 PM

Fed Court Declines to Reopen Roe V. Wade

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DALLAS - A federal district court dismissed a request by the one-time plaintiff known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 30 years ago.

The court said late Thursday that Norma McCorvey's request wasn't made within a "reasonable time" after the 1973 judgment in Roe v. Wade

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"Whether or not the Supreme Court was infallible, its Roe decision was certainly final in this litigation," Judge David Godbey wrote in the ruling. "It is simply too late now, thirty years after the fact, for McCorvey to revisit that judgment."

SLD · 06-20-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by Jewel
Fed Court Declines to Reopen Roe V. Wade

Yeah, well Duhhh. Any other lawyers see a Rule 11 violation? Just a stunt.

SLD

Jewel · 06-20-2003, 05:26 PM

Of course it was all for publicity -- some folks will do anything it takes to get it. None the less.....

Stephen Maturin · 06-20-2003, 05:35 PM

That's some mighty good stuff! You don't often see a two-day turnaround time on a motion accompanied by a fifty-four page supporting brief and thousands of pages of evidentiary material. It's rendered all the more amusing by the fact that Judge Godbey is a recentBush43 appointee.

SLD · 06-20-2003, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by Stephen Maturin
That's some mighty good stuff! You don't often see a two-day turnaround time on a motion accompanied by a fifty-four page supporting brief and thousands of pages of evidentiary material. It's rendered all the more amusing by the fact that Judge Godbey is a recentBush43 appointee.

Here in Birmingham it took about 48 hours for one of our Bush41 appointees to through out a case alleging that a statue of the roman god Vulcan was a C-S violation. Sheesh - ever heard of the lemon test? Of course the guy couldn't find a lawyer to even file the case. Kind of like prisoner lawsuits - fundies trying to make fun of our Constitution to gain some BS political points.

SLD

Stephen Maturin · 06-20-2003, 06:28 PM

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Kind of like prisoner lawsuits - fundies trying to make fun of our Constitution to gain some BS political points.

Exactamundo, SLD. And it's nice to know that there's at least one Shrub appointee out there who won't countenance such nonsense. Rulings like this are the judicial equivalent of a Bruce Lee 360-degree spin kick to the nuts.

Rule 11? Yeah, maybe so. I did a high-speed, low-altitude pass over the Texas Justice Foundation's brief and found nary a mention of the "reasonable time" requirement, much less any argument about whether a thirty-year lapse might qualify as reasonable. No "improper purpose"? Claims "warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law"? Sure doesn't look that way to me.

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06-20-2003, 05:26 PM	#54
Jewel Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Northern Virginia, USA Posts: 1,112	Of course it was all for publicity -- some folks will do anything it takes to get it. None the less.....

06-20-2003, 05:35 PM	#55
Stephen Maturin Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Broomfield, Colorado, USA Posts: 1,295	That's some mighty good stuff! You don't often see a two-day turnaround time on a motion accompanied by a fifty-four page supporting brief and thousands of pages of evidentiary material. It's rendered all the more amusing by the fact that Judge Godbey is a recentBush43 appointee.

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