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Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000 - 6/30/2008 12:53:50 AM
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SILVERNAME
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City demands its money after citizens speak up to defend monument
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Posted: June 28, 2008
12:30 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Brandi Swindell and Bryan Fischer
A little more than four years ago, Brandi Swindell, Bryan Fischer and a group called Generation Life hoped to stop the city council of Boise, Idaho, from removing a Ten Commandments monument that had stood in a city park since 1965.
The city council accepted no public input into its decision, so Generation Life was compelled to file a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order on the city's action.
Generation Life lost that case, and even though they later took another suit to the Idaho Supreme Court, winning the right to have the citizens of Boise vote on the monument's future, the bill from the first case has come due.
Now, more than four years later, the city of Boise wants Swindell, Fischer, and Generation Life to pay $10,000 in court-awarded legal fees from the first case. Interest is already accruing, and the city has placed liens against Swindell and Fischer's property.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68169
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RE: Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000 - 6/30/2008 8:00:54 AM
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Sophie11
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I admit I only read what was in your post and not any more of the article that may have been included in the link, but I am not seeing the problem here. If the group lost to the city and have to pay the legal fees, then that is the cost of losing the lawsuit. I'm quite sure they knew that going into it.
And I have to ask why they have not already paid the fees if it is four years later.
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RE: Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000 - 6/30/2008 10:33:31 AM
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ORIGINAL: Sophie11
I admit I only read what was in your post and not any more of the article that may have been included in the link, but I am not seeing the problem here. If the group lost to the city and have to pay the legal fees, then that is the cost of losing the lawsuit. I'm quite sure they knew that going into it.
And I have to ask why they have not already paid the fees if it is four years later.
WorldNutDaily rarely provides any links that might include useful background information because they don't want anyone to know there might be more to the story. There were a number of these kinds of cases during the "Ten Commandments Craze" a few years ago. One county in Tennessee put a plaque in the courthouse, being assured that private citizens would reimburse legal fees. As expected, the county lost. The money for legal fees came in at a trickle. Finally, after some publicity on how local fundamentalists didn't keep their promises, an anonymous donor stepped in to pick up the remaining tab.
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RE: Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000 - 6/30/2008 11:26:12 AM
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ORIGINAL: cow451
Finally, after some publicity on how local fundamentalists didn't keep their promises, an anonymous donor stepped in to pick up the remaining tab.
Well, fundamentalists are still the most moral people on the planet.
I mean, they may welsh on their obligations thereby passing the bill to someone else when they try to stick idols of the Ten Commandments in everyone's faces, but at least they don't kill babies and try to marry the same sex . . .
Did I get that right?
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RE: Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000 - 6/30/2008 12:11:05 PM
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fiat_lux
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My understanding is that this is fairly standard. Had the pro-commandments group won the case (again as I understand it) they could have asked for payment of their costs instead, and would have got it.
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Did I get that right?
If you were aiming for sarcastic mockery, then yes, I guess you did. I'm not sure whether it's a particulary useful debating tactic though. Personally, I try not to do either of those two things.
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