Brad Blog: Supreme Court Decision DeRails Hart Qui Tam Lawsuit

[AtLiberty]

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 6/27/2008 12:35PM

Exclusive: Supreme Court Decision Derails Federal Fraud Suit Against Voting Machine Company
Complaint Against Hart InterCivic Withdrawn Following Adverse Ruling Limiting Whistleblower Claims

Reported by Brad Friedman, from the road...

The whistleblower lawsuit against voting machine company Hart InterCivic, as filed in federal court on behalf of former employee William Singer, has been withdrawn following a decision by the Supreme Court that makes pursuing the case nearly impossible, according to the law firm who originally filed the complaint.

The suit had been sealed for nearly two years as the Dept. of Justice asked for extension after extension during their decision on whether or not to join the case. Earlier this year, they ultimately decided not to join the case, as we reported last March, leaving the firm of Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Echsner & Proctor, P.A to proceed on their own. The DoJ declines to join some 76% of such cases.

In the interim, while waiting for the DoJ, the case of Rockwell Intl Corp. v. U.S. came before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the findings in that decision, as attorney Mike Papantonio told The BRAD BLOG, has "made it next to impossible to proceed with any and all federal whistleblower (qui tam) cases."

The decision found that Rockwell was required to pay millions of dollars under the federal False Claims Act to the federal government, but that the relator of the case --- the insider who blew the whistle --- was not entitled to any of that money, nor even for the millions of dollars accrued in legal costs since the amended complaint, filed with the Justice Dept., included information about which the relator did not have direct inside knowledge...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6115#more-6115

[Stevepol]

1. Disappointing. K&R.

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. Some charlatan didn't get payoff? Too bad

By the time Stone sued, the news media had already published several reports detailing environmental violations at that facility (the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant).

http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/certgrants/2006/rocvuni

Get lost ... losers.

[BeFree]

3. We are the losers here

And corporations are the winners.

Now whose side are YOU on?

[Fredda Weinberg]

4. Truth and justice, my friend. Corporations are entities that represent

shareholders but they're not ghouls. In fact, my software started several - with good people behind each one.

Sorry if you live in a sorry world, but where I come from, the Supreme Court decision was reasonable and the effect salutary. You gotta problem with Duke law school's article, take it up with them.

[Bill Bored]

5. And this has WHAT to do with Hart misrepresenting their voting systems? nt

[Fredda Weinberg]

6. The OP should be

Supreme Court Decision DeRails Fraudulent Hart Qui Tam Lawsuit

Voting systems makers are suffering the consequences of their own incompetence. Irresponsible claims should be their problem, not ours. If Mark Klein bows out now, it just means he never had a legitimate case to begin with and I say, good riddance.

Read the article ... enough people are doing serious work to save sympathy from those who are trying to make an easier buck. It's not that hard to code a decent election system, but the politics are impossible. It's my field, but I won't do it.

So yes, keeping the industry clean is important so competent professionals can do their job. I'll stick to other software specialities, thank you.

[tom_paine]

11. LOL. I know corporations aren't ghouls, they just work for them and are often run by them.

But you know...you've turned me around on this.

I.G Farben got a bad rap. :rofl:

(where's the Zyklon-B smilie when you need it?)

[kster]

8. We can't lose its impossible, we are

growing stronger by the day, how long do the two crime families, both D&R believe they can REMAIN SILENT about the counting of our ballots before we take control of our Ballot Count, they can make all the laws they want, but hand counting the ballots in the neighborhood is what's gonna happen.

Peace....K&R


F*CK THEM!!

[BillORightsMan]

9. I hear ya kster

It's the Status Quo:

These electeds can NEVER ADMIT they were duly elected on FRAUDULENT MACHINES.

It's like the chicken-egg argument.
Which came first, corrupt politicians or corrupt elections?

F*CK THEM?

F*CK US!!

K&R
:patriot:

[kster]

10. I know, its getting laughable, give me your vote

not sure how the vote you give me will be counted, and I must also REMAIN SILENT about how the vote that I want from you gets counted , but Please give me your vote.

GOOD GRIEIF !!

:rofl:

Can you say ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILIES? :)

[robinlynne]

12. Fredda defends FISA too. She's a visitor.

[tom_paine]

13. Yes, whatever Fredda is, she's no patriot.

That much is clear.

[BillORightsMan]

7. Copper Cards

I came across this at a new libertarian site

www.CopperCards.com

http://www.coppercards.com/about/why_is_coppercards_necessary.htm

Unconstitutional laws have altered the relationship between citizens and the legal system. Our legal system has turned from public servant to that of beneficiaries of civilian convictions. Today the U.S. has more people in jail, prison and on probation than all the other nations in the world combined! By 2004, seven million citizens were in jail, prison or on probation, the situation today is even worse. Our courts and government is completely corrupt while the government consistently looks for new ways to generate more revenue.

~snip~
Courts have abandoned the Constitution and Common Law and replaced the law with ‘case law’ and ‘codes’ that reflect the whims and greed of judges and legislators. The more they mess up your life, the more the legal industry and government profits. There is no incentive in the legal industry or the government to take care of you, there is only incentive to rob you. CopperCards shifts the paradigm and reverses the incentive.

Quite plainly, the system is rigged for those in power to STAY in power.
Qui Tam has now gone the way of Habeus Corpus.

As Chalmers Johnson advises: Prepare your own Personal Exit Srategy.

imbilllorightmanandiapprovethismessage
:patriot: