http://law.justia.com/maryland/codes/gcj/10-402.html

A national crime syndicate can get caught red-handed and they get to sue the people that caught them.

Hope and change to the max!

“As a direct and proximate result of the actions of defendants, ACORN has suffered injury to its reputation.”

Seems to me.. and I am no lawyer.. Acorn ALLOWED their employees to damage it’s reputation. If the employees had been properly trained, or at least not brain dead (oh no I might be a defendant next) they would have done the right thing and turned them away and/or contacted the police.

They are suing the wrong people. Try your ex-employees.

Sorry Acorn. You made your bed, sleep in it.

Plus, Acorns rep as been poo for a long long time anyways.

I can’t wait for discovery.

I mean doesn’t ABC record people without their consent all the time for those sting operation shows.

ACORN does have some major cajones though….from my math they are looking for more that $3 million out of this.

$500000 compensatory damages for each fired worker…..wow I need to get wrongfully terminated from ACORN so I can retire.

Plus a cool million for punitive damages. Good times.

Bring on discover!

I think by Breitbart that they welsomed a lawsuit from ACORN. The glee was in the “discovery process” as they (AOORN) have a heck of a lot more to lose, expose, than the Filmmaker and his cohort, or those that brought this forward. I make a gazillion dollar bet that ACORN drops the lawsuit when Bertha Butts realizes what she has to lose.

I thought it was determined that for like two years, ACORN should not have been operating in Maryland anyway. How can you possibly sue people for doing something to you when you weren’t supposed to be doing business in the state to begin with? And they want money for fired workers? My mom always told me you can’t have it both ways. The cajones on some people!

ACORN = Child Prostitution + Human Trafficking + Tax Evasion * Voter Fraud * Corruption Convictions ^2 Obama’s comments on “this is not a big deal” after he was their attorney and trainer.

Do you think they want to add to the above equation if they go forward with this? You can anchor an aircraft carrier with the weight the discovery brings to ACORN’s demise.

The writing is on the Wall, ACORN… How did Daniel translate it?

God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting

Where do we contribute to “The Good Guys” Legal Defense Fund !!

Though we strike from the shadows, do not think we lack the courage to stand in the light.
~Zeratul

as someone who is unfamiliar w/ legal proceedings, what is there about ‘discovery’ that ACORN will be afraid of? what kinds of info can be asked about?

…in an effort to protect the First Amendment rights of ALL Americans, it will be illegal to attempt to investigate and thus, as a result, prosecute criminal activity.

…unless of course, the criminal (and/or criminal organization) freely and of his own sense of moral decorum turns himself (or herself) and all relevant evidence over to the appropriate authorities along with an apology for committing said criminal activity.

Whoa, man, those ACORN people are REALLY stupid… filing a lawsuit is dumb enough, but then demanding a jury trial, making their only hope is to find 12 people who are ACORN fans. Breitbart et al. should file a countersuit – I don’t know for what, but they should come up with something, so when win, it’ll bankrupt ACORN.

Breitbart was editor at Drudge during the whole Goldberg/Tripp/Lewinsky wiretap controversy. I think it likely that Breitbart et al knew all about the wiretap laws in MD, NY, DC and CA going into this.

hmmm…

Is it my imagination, or is this essentially an admission of guilt?

Seems to me there’s a massive difference between “we did nothing wrong” and “how DARE you tape us”?

otherwise, then of course ACORN will find a friendly jury. They are probably recruiting for Juror trolls now.

ACORN Dissappears. Is renamed:

NORCA : New Organization Renamed for Criminal Activity

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First… we don’t have any Attorneys on the site? Hmmm…

Next… this is as bad as the guy that breaks into your house then sues you for falling down the stairs.

As others have pointed out, this is going to be a very tricky case for them ACORN, to fight.

The whole 1st Amendment thing
The criminal act thing (trying to suppress the tape showing the criminal act, while the tape is the centerpiece of their claim)
Proving damage (all those fraud convictions all over the country)
Not loosing control of their information dug out at time of discovery

And oh, the counter charges… just what will Breitbart counter with? RICO? Calling for depositions/testimony from half of the West Wing? How about calling all those Senators and Congress Critters and ask them ‘why did you vote to cut ACORN funding? This incident? Not the dozens of voter fraud convictions?’ How uncomfortable will that be? Not to mention, a ‘full disclosure’ of Congress Critters relationship with ACORN

This opens ACORN to a whole bunch of jeopardy… legal and political.

Fun times…

that ACORN is suing in Baltimore to also try to force Hannah and James to claim the Fifth under the threat by the incredibly corrupt Baltimore DA.

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Good point is that the suit is in MD which is a deep blue state and in Baltimore county where you can count the Republicans on the fingers of one hand. It is a favorable place to pull a jury for ACORN.

The BAD point is discovery. They can now demand the books for ACORN going back to their inception. They can demand to show that since their were other miscreants in California and other States. They can show the indictments. They can bring in the brothers and demand to see all evidence regarding the embezzlement,.

Anything that will show what would lead a reasonable person to set up this sting operation.

Get this they can also bring in every instance where local or national TV or print media set up sting operations in MD. In a word ACORN was dammed crazy to file this suit.

Leftist authoritarian bully tactics work great in the shadows. When they become the National Headline, they better get ready for an honest examination and pushback like they’ve never experienced before.

“22. As a direct and proximate result of the actions of defendants, Ms. Thompson and Ms. Williams have lost their employment and have suffered extreme emotional distress with attendant physical symptons and injury to their reputations.”

Uh, no, actually, Ms. Thompson an Ms. Williams lost their employment because ACORN made an independent decision to terminate their employment. As an emailer to Jonah Goldberg indicated, counsel for Breitbart, Giles and O’Keefe will move to disqualify Plaintiffs’ counsel because ACORN and the two individual plaintiffs have a big conflict of interest.

Moreover, I believe that paragraph 22 exposes plaintiffs and their counsel to possible sanctions. ACORN cannot deny that it made the decision to terminate these employees because of their misconduct. And counsel had to know or reasonably should have known this fact at the time it filed the lawsuit.

I look forward to the can of whoop-ass that Breitbart, Giles, and O’Keefe will undoubtedly open on ACORN and its former employees