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NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby PYoungbaer » Jul 15, 2011 2:57 pm

This just in:

"The Judge just denied the Center for Biological Diversity's motion for summary judgment, on the merits, in an oral opinion issued after about an hour of argument."

That statement was just emailed from the Washington, D.C. federal district court, from Bert Ashbrook. Bert and his firm took this case pro bono and have worked with a number of us, including convention staff and key witnesses, the Board of Governors and NSS Legal Committee. We had to keep this quiet, but it has been in the works since the motion was filed.

The NSS filed for intervenor status, even though CBD did not name the NSS in the lawsuit, only the Bureau of Land Management. The hearing took place at 2:00 PM today.

This means the BLM permit issued for the NSS Convention attendees to visit certain caves on BLM land during the convention stands.
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby Phil Winkler » Jul 15, 2011 3:26 pm

Wonderful news, Peter. Please keep up your excellent work.
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby tncaver » Jul 15, 2011 5:01 pm

That is good news. The CBD was hoodwinked by the NSS. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I had hoped for such a judicial intervention but quite frankly thought it would not happen.
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby hewhocaves » Jul 15, 2011 5:59 pm

Someone go rent me an aircraft carrier and a big banner saying "common sense accomplished" :rofl:

Great job Peter and Bert, way to beat em on their own turf!
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby GroundquestMSA » Jul 15, 2011 6:40 pm

Aircraft carrier?
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby Phil Winkler » Jul 15, 2011 8:31 pm

A reference to GW Bush's Mission Accomplished fiasco of some years back.
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby pub » Jul 15, 2011 9:06 pm

Wiki - 2003 Mission Accomplished speech

Here’s a more recent use:
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Source: www.independent.co.uk

Congrats Bert et al.!
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby hewhocaves » Jul 15, 2011 10:07 pm

GroundquestMSA wrote:Aircraft carrier?


Its my way of subtly reminding people that while we've won our first big battle, the war is far from over.
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Re: NSS Victory! Judge Denies CBD Motion on Convention

Postby self-deleted_user » Jul 16, 2011 7:10 am

Yay!
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