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I have been following this case and read the ACLU amicus brief yesterday and enjoyed it. Here is a link t the brief https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3911409-Wvnd-19902323086.html
I am not the only one who enjoyed this brief
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Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Lol. Bob Murray is a snowflake in need of a safe space. I love John Oliver.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I love that.
(I wonder what my writing professor would have said if I used that as a point heading in an assignment).
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)People say that lawyers lack a sense of humor
spinbaby
(15,092 posts)Trust me, they're having a blast.
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)Bob is a great plaintiff to attack and mock
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I wonder how they feel about the GOP's "anti-obscenity" promise now, given the administration hiring the "he can suck his own cock" guy?
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I've never seen anything like it in a court document.
My only mild criticism is that instead of referring to the plaintiff as "Mr. Murray," they should have referred to him as "convicted felon Bob Murray." Every single time.
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)You see more pictures and graphs in briefs now but this was not your standard brief
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)I couldn't help but read it in his voice.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)All good progressives oppose censorship and support the 1st Amendment. Like other issues, it is non-negotiable AFAIAC.
progressoid
(50,008 posts)Initech
(100,118 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I can't believe I remember someone on this site called them "addle-brained" not too long ago..
I think because they were having a tantrum that consenting adults in this country can look at pictures of other consenting adults having sex.
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)The American Bar Association is also having fun with this idiotic lawsuit. The ABA also enjoyed the brief from the West Virginia ACLU http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/snarky_aclu_brief_filed_on_behalf_of_john_oliver_tells_ceo_anyone_can_legal/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
The West Virginia ACLU filed an amicus brief in a defamation suit Murray filed against John Oliver for his June segment on the coal industry and its treatment of workers in a monologue on his HBO program, Last Week Tonight. Vanity Fair calls the brief hilarious, while LawNewz calls it the snarkiest legal brief ever. Slate and the Hollywood Reporter also have stories....
The ACLU brief pokes fun at the lawsuit and criticizes the lawyers who filed it.
It is a basic concept of free speech that you do not get to sue media organizations because you dont like their coverage, the brief says. It is frankly shocking that plaintiffs were able to find attorneys willing to file a lawsuit that is so obviously unconstitutional.
With regard to the Dr. Evil remark, the brief says, truth is an absolute defense to defamation. The brief includes side-by-side photos of Murray and Myers as Dr. Evil.
In a portion of the brief captioned Anyone Can Legally Say Eat Shit Bob, the ACLU calls the case beyond meritless and offensive to the very ideals of free speech.
It is apt that one of plaintiffs objections to the show is about a human-sized squirrel named Mr. Nutterbutter, because this case is nuts, the brief says. Which also begs the question: is Mr. Nutterbutter one of the 50 Doe Defendants included in this action?
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)Gothmog
(145,753 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I'll buy one. I might even become a regional distributor.
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)I bought it many years ago when my son ran for statewide office for a student organization and had a campaign spending limit. We made our own buttons instead of buying them to keep under the spending limit. My middle child used similar buttons two years later and won her race for statewide office. Since then, I produce buttons from time to time. The Obama team did some artwork for the voter protection team and I made buttons for the local team and for some litigators in the voter id and redistricting cases.
Juanita Jean and a couple of other people I know have their own machines
Gothmog
(145,753 posts)Murray energy is playing dirty to challenge ACLU amicus brief http://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-murray-idUSKBN1AO2HP
On Monday, Murray picked up the ACLUs gauntlet, arguing in a brief in federal court in Wheeling, West Virginia, that the civil liberties group should not be allowed to appear as an amicus in the Oliver case. Murrays most substantive argument: The ACLU, according to Murray, failed to disclose its indisputable and disqualifying bias, an alleged economic motive to back John Oliver and his co-defendants.
In November of 2016, Murrays brief said, Oliver used Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to encourage viewers to donate to numerous left-leaning organizations, which - not surprisingly - resulted in an immediate surge of millions of dollars in donations to the ACLU. Olivers campaign, Murray claimed, meant that the ACLU wasnt being straight with the court when it said no one in the Oliver camp had funded its amicus filing.
The only problem with that argument? Oliver never called on viewers to donate to the ACLU.
This is a chickenshit argument that shows that Murray is worried