The Nashua Advocate: AG Jim Petro, The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us

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[Wilms]

1. Thanks for the legal analysis.

When I found out they hit Arneback with a suit, I wondered if it was frivolous to claim someone who is not frivolous to be frivolous.

[nashuaadvocate]

2. Absolutely -- any lawsuit designed solely to harass the respondent

is -- depending upon the rules of civil procedure of the state in which the suit is brought -- subject to potential sanctions from the court. That applies to Petro every bit as much as it applies to Arnebeck. But what's important, really, is that Arnebeck is *entitled* to defend himself by showing just why and how his suit had merit in the first place.

If what I'm reading in the papers is true (which notion, I know, ought to cause me to tread cautiously) Petro should be sanctioned for this. And I'm adding right now a link to the Conyers letter to Petro, in which he intimates (not too subtly) that he (Conyers) believes this is a politically-motivated suit intended to harass Arnebeck.

Don't think Conyers has a legal staff? You bet he does!

-- TNE

[Wilms]

3. Do you think they're trying to drag Arnebeck back to Ohio..

since he told the Ohio SC he'd take his business elsewhere??

[Alizaryn]

6. Would this then allow Arnebeck "discovery " to enable

him to prove his claims?

[Wilms]

7. I'm wondering the opposite.

Try to nail him and shut him down. Though there'd be appeals.

Sometimes I don't want to know too much. Let these guys do what they gotta do.

[nashuaadvocate]

8. Unfortunately, probably not. He'll have to work with what he has. n/t

[keepthemhonest]

4. I have not read this article yet

but I do like your response that is funny but serious too.

[keepthemhonest]

5. thanks for the analogy

shhhh don't let Jim Petro find out about your article he might drop the lawsuit

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[BeFree]

10. Let's see here,

You can go to war, killing thousands, by making a totally false case about WMD, but if you file a lawsuit about voting problems you get yourself brought into court?

So that's what Democracy means to the republicans, eh?

[Carolab]

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