ACORN Won’t Follow Through
ACORN has filed a lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart that nobody thinks they’ll follow through on. Last night on OTR, Greta opined about such a lawsuit. This morning, Greta posted her thoughts on the lawsuit:
ACORN just filed a lawsuit against the two with the undercover camera and filed against someone who has a website who posted/published the video. The decision to file suit is real dumb for them and it doesn’t matter if they are right about the two party consent law in Maryland.
Why are they so dumb?
By filing a lawsuit, ACORN just opened itself up for FULL DISCOVERY!! They are going to get hit with interrogatories, requests for production of documents, depositions etc. And who will get deposed? Just about everybody! And if discovery produces evidence of a crime? You can be sure that the evidence will be fed ex’d to the Justice Department!
Yes, ACORN will try and limit the scope of discovery to the issue of one party consent to taping…but discovery rules are really, really, really broad. I sure would hate to be rolling the dice on this one if I were ACORN and if I had something to hide!
I don’t know if Greta stayed at a Holiday Inn last night but I know that she’s a real life attorney. She knows what she’s talking about with regards to civil suit discovery. Last night, she kidded that she wishes that they’d include her in the lawsuit so that she could get ACORN’s communications and financial reports delivered to her office.
If ACORN goes through with this lawsuit, then they’ll lose. If that happens, then ACORN will have the right to sue the attorney who gave them this awful advice.
It’s important that we highlight how Greta would’ve advised ACORN had she been ACORN’s attorney:
By the way, what would have been my legal advice to ACORN if they were my client? I would have told them to lie low and just hope the heat passes and not to file suit….but they have done the opposite. They have just given 3 parties the right to ask them a billion questions (UNDER OATH) and demand billions of documents etc! And how about risk of video taped depositions of ACORN officials? The more I think about this, the more I wonder whose good idea this was!
Yes, idiots.
ACORN has been super-secretive about their documents. That’s understandable since their communications likely would reveal their interactions with SEIU, with other left wing fringe groups and who’s contributing to them. It would also identify which government agencies they’ve gotten money from, which would be helpful in eliminating their federal and state funding.
Unless I miss my guess, Mr. Breitbart is likely smiling the smile of a lifetime and saying something like “I’ve died and gone to heaven.” It isn’t unreasonable to think that he’s already made a call to hire a team of attorneys.
Keep checking back for more updates. right now, though, every conservative and good government liberal should be smiling. Their dreams of eliminating a huge chunk of corruption is suddenly alot more possible, thanks in large part to ACORN’s apparent legal stupidity.
Technorati Tags: ACORN, Litigation, Discovery, Financial Reports, Communications, Federal Funding, Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, Greta van Susteren
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog