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Donald Trump Donald Trump Politics

Donald Trump Sues Univision for $500 Million

If Donald Trump is not a racist, he definitely has racist tendencies. That may explain why he said those racist things about Mexican people causing Univision to cut ties with him and the Miss USA Pageant. But in addition to his racist tendencies, Trump is sometimes a sore loser, and has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision over the network’s decision to cut ties with the Miss USA pageant.

The Blaze reports that Univision, which was under contract to air the pageant live in Spanish, said it would no longer do so after Trump’s controversial comments on those illegally entering the USA from Mexico.

Trump, however, contested Univision’s claim, contending the network’s move was really aimed at silencing his freedom of speech as he begins his presidential campaign. Trump said in a statement that nothing he has said was different from what he has been saying for “many years.”

“I want strong borders, and I do not support or condone illegal immigration,” Trump said. “There is a high level of crime occurring in this country due to unchecked illegal immigration. This is a major security issue for the United States.”

“Additionally, the terrible trade deals our government is routinely entering into with Mexico are causing great financial harm to our country,” he continued. “We are losing a huge number of jobs, manufacturing opportunities and money due to poorly negotiated trade deals, a fact that is indisputable. That won’t happen if I become president – this disturbing trend will end and it will end quickly.”

Trump said that he has “great respect for Mexico and love for the Mexican people,” contending his comments have been manipulated by the media to frame him as a racist.

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Mike Brown Mike Brown Shooting

Michael Brown’s Family Files Lawsuit Against The City of Ferguson

The civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis County, Missouri, names the city of Ferguson, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson as defendants, Reuters reports.

The lawsuit seeks $75,000 in compensation, as well as unspecified punitive damages, and calls for a court order prohibiting the use of police techniques “that demean, disregard, or underserve its African-American population”.

The shooting last August sparked protests and a national movement questioning police use of deadly force, especially against minorities in cities around the country.

The lawsuit alleges that Wilson destroyed evidence after he shot Brown on the street of the St. Louis suburb last August, saying he washed blood off his hands and cleared and bagged the gun used in the shooting.

“We expect to put on evidence that you never heard about before, that you have never seen,” Anthony Gray, one of the lawyers for Brown’s family, said at a news conference on Thursday to discuss the lawsuit.

Gray said evidence had not been presented properly in the previous investigations.

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Barack Obama executive orders Immigration Politics

John Boehner Says Obama Has Authority to Use Executive Orders

Now pay close attention.

The day after President Obama decided to act on immigration, Republicans went ahead and announced that they have filed a lawsuit against the president. The lawsuit does not deal with the president’s immigration order, but  deals exclusively with healthcare and and the so-called “abuse of power” claim made against the president by Republicans.

In announcing the filing of the lawsuit, Republican House Speaker John Boehner inadvertently explained that President Obama has the authority to make the decisions he has made theough Executive orders. Speaking to Reporters, Boehner said;

“Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and rewrite federal law on his own without a vote of Congress. That’s not the way our system of government was designed to work. If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well. The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action.”

John Boehner has been in politics for a long time and he is well aware that past presidents have taken the same executive measures to attempt to fix the immigration problem.

When both Reagan and George Bush used their executive authority for immigration reform, Republicans stayed quiet. No Republican, including the Speaker of the House, saw anything wrong and accepted the precedent set by these previous presidents, and understood that this precedent would be followed by future presidents. To quote Boehner, “future presidents will have the ability to as well.”

Well if it was accepted back then that future presidents would “have the ability” to follow set precedent, then clearly Obama, being a president, has that ability and is working within his constitutionally allowed boundaries. And John Boehner and his Republican block party have expected and accepted it as the norm.

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Ebola

Settlement Reached in Eric Duncan’s Ebola Death

The Dallas hospital that sent Eric Duncan home when he tried getting help from his Ebola symptoms, has reached a settlement with Duncan’s family, according to the family’s lawyer.

According to their attorneys, a resolution has been “reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities.”  The resolution includes a financial settlement and a charitable contribution. No further monetary details were disclosed.

Duncan returned from his native Liberia to Texas on September 20 and came to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 5 days later complaining of stomach pains, dizziness, nausea and headaches. He had a temperature of 103 degrees.

During Duncan’s five hour stay, he informed health workers that he had recently been to Liberia, but the attending physician was not told. Duncan was released from the hospital later that day only to return September 30 in an ambulance — officially the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with Ebola.

The hospital would later receive a lot of criticism on their initial decision to send him home.  Although two nurses at the hospital were later infected, Duncan was the only one to die of the disease.

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Barack Obama Politics

Once Upon A Time, Republicans Even Filed A Lawsuit Against The President

Americans first learned back on June 24, more than four months ago, about the House Republican plan to file a lawsuit against President Obama. Two weeks later, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the basis for the case: the GOP would sue to implement an obscure provision of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans don’t actually want to see implemented.
 
When the case was announced, congressional Republicans made it seem as if they were headed to court as part of a bold move to preserve our constitutional system of government against the tyrannical moves of a lawless presidency. But four months later, it looks as if Boehner & Co. got lost on the way to the courthouse.
 
Josh Gerstein reports that the case hasn’t even been filed yet.
It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven’t managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they’d be suing the president.
 
House Speaker John Boehner came out swinging hard last June when he announced that his chamber would take President Barack Obama to court. The suit, charging that the president grossly exceeded his constitutional authority by failing to implement portions of the Obamacare law, was billed as an election-season rallying point for aggrieved Republicans. But days before the midterms, the House’s legal guns seem to have fallen silent.
 
Lawyers close to the process said they originally expected the legal challenge to be filed in September, but now they don’t expect any action before the elections.
Republicans not only won’t file the case, they also refuse to say why they won’t file the case – party officials refused to explain the delay when asked by Politico for comment.
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Red Bull Settlement – It Does Not Give You Wings

Breaking News: drinking Red Bull will not give you wings. That, despite all the advertisements you may have seen on television or heard on radio claiming that drinking the popular energy drink “gives you wings.”

Between the years of January 1st 2002 October 3rd 2014, the advertising catch phrase “Red Bull gives you wings,” apparently had people buying the drinks looking to capitalize on a world of energy and wings. Some of these people took the phrase and claims by Red Bull so seriously, that they took the company to court and eventually received a $13 million settlement.

So if you are one of these people that got duped into buying the drink, you too are entitled to collect on this settlement and you don’t even need a receipt.

In his lawsuit, one of the consumers wrote that “such deceptive conduct and practices mean that [Red Bull’s] advertising and marketing is not just ‘puffery’ but is instead deceptive and fraudulent and is therefore actionable.”

In a statement,  the company maintains its position that it was not trying to mislead the buyer.

“Red Bull settled the lawsuit to avaid the cost and distraction of litigation. However, Red Bull maintains that its marketing and labeling have always been truthful and accurate, and denies any and all wrongdoing or liability.”

According to terms of the lawsuit,  each Red Bull consumer will get either $10 cash payment or $15 worth of Red Bull products.

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Barack Obama Politics

New Poll – Americans Do Not Want President Obama Impeached or Sued

Once again Republicans find themselves on the wrong side of history. A new CNN poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans do want to impeach or sue President Obama. Despite what John Boehner, Sarah Palin and the rest of the Republican party want you to believe.

The poll finds the majority of Americans oppose impeaching Obama by 65-33, and oppose the House GOP lawsuit against the president by 57-41. A majority disagree by 52-45 that he’s gone too far in expanding executive power.

You’ll be shocked to hear that only Republicans and conservatives support both impeaching the president and the lawsuit against him. Republicans support impeachment by 57-42; they support the lawsuit by 75-22. Among conservatives those numbers are 56-44 and 64-33.

Meanwhile, majorities of moderates and independents overwhelmingly oppose both. Among moderates the numbers on impeachment are 26-72 and on the lawsuit they are 34-62. Among independents the numbers are 35-63 and 43-55.

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ObamaCare Politics

Republican Hypocrisy – Boehner’s Lawsuit is To Help Implement All of Obamacare

So Republicans, especially House Speaker John Boehner, voted against healthcarw refirm, even voting over 50 times to end Obamacare. They call the law a travesty, saying that it would lead to ” armageddon ” if it went into effect.

Not only has armageddon not happened, the law is very popular even with Americans who still call themselves Republicans. So what do Congressional Republicans do? They plan to sue the president to make sure no part of the law is delayed, but fully implemented.

Can you say Hypocrites?

Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) lawsuit against President Obama will focus on the delay of the employer mandate in ObamaCare, according to a draft resolution authorizing the litigation released Thursday.

The lawsuit will challenge the administration’s decision to unilaterally delay a requirement that firms offer health insurance to their employees or pay a penalty, Boehner said in a statement.

“The president changed the healthcare law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it,” Boehner said. “That’s not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own.”

Under the law, employers with more than 50 full-time workers offer health insurance or pay a penalty. But earlier this year, federal health officials announced that employers with between 50 and 99 workers have until January 2016 to comply with the requirement to offer health insurance or pay a fine.

That was on top of a previous delay in July 2013, which pushed back implementation of the penalty for all impacted companies until January 2015.

Boehner said the lawsuit was borne out of “an obligation to stand up for the Legislative Branch.”

“The current president believes he has the power to make his own laws — at times even boasting about it,” Boehner said. “He has said that if Congress won’t make the laws he wants, he’ll go ahead and make them himself, and in the case of the employer mandate in his health care law, that’s exactly what he did. If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well.”
The White House panned the lawsuit as a “political stunt” that will waste taxpayer dollars.

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Sleeping Fan Sues NY Yankees and ESPN for Defamation

The moral of this story – be careful if who you make fun of at a Yankees game. You just might get sued for $10 million.

A man caught on camera snoozing at a Yankees game last month is suing ESPN, the New York Yankees, and announcers Dan Shulman and John Kruk, court documents said.

Andrew Rector is asking for $10 million for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress because of comments made to millions of viewers during the live telecast of the April 13 Yankees vs. Red Sox game. 

According to the lawsuit filed in New York, the Rector claimed he was show in a false light, that his reputation was damaged and it was no one’s business if he was napping.

The lawsuit claimed the announcers insinuated Rector is “stupid”, “not worthy to be a fan”, “a fatty cow that needs two seats at all times”, and “socially bankrupt.”

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executive actions Politics

Boehner Has a Beef With Obama – Plans to Sue The President Because… ???

What the hell for I hear you screaming as you scratch your head in confusion and disgust! Well you’re not alone. I had the very same reaction after I heard this news and now after reading the full account of Boehner’s intended lawsuit, I am still confused… and disgusted at the utter partisan nonsense these people are intentionally dragging this country through.

Boehner plans to sue Obama because Obama is acting like a president, and is doing the exact same thing other presidents before him have done. Boehner’s beef? He claims Obama is using Executive actions and so, must be sued… because… FREEDOM!

“I am,” the Speaker said when asked if he was planning to initiate a lawsuit.

“You know the constitution makes it clear that the president’s job is to faithfully execute the laws and in my view the President has not faithfully executed the laws,” Boehner added at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

The Speaker denied that the move was about energizing Republicans ahead the midterm elections.

“This is about defending the institution in which we serve. If you look back over the past 235 years of our history there’s been movement between the inherent powers of the executive branch vs the inherent powers of the legislative branch and what we’ve seen clearly over the past 5 years is an effort to erode the power of the legislative branch,” the Speaker said in response to a question from CNN.

Yea, sue the president for being presidential. Only the mush of a Republican brain can come up with this… mush!

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Michael Jackson Fan Is Suing – Not Enough Michael Jackson Songs on Album

According to TMZ, an irate Michael Jackson fan is suing his Estate because she thinks MJ was not the lead singer on 3 of his songs on the 2010 CD, “Michael” … the first release after his death.

The woman filed the suit today in L.A. claiming she bought the disc in 2011, but didn’t hear enough Michael on 3 particular tracks.

In the suit she claims she hired an audio expert to analyze her CD and he determined it was very likely that MJ did not sing lead vocals on “Breaking News” … “Monster” … and “Keep Your Head Up.”

The woman wants this to be a class action — meaning if the allegation is true the Estate would owe money to everyone who bought the full album, or any of the 3 tracks in question.

The Estate’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, has previously said Michael did provide lead vocals for all the tracks on the album.

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New Jersey Teen Moves back Home – Lawsuit Against Her Parents Still On

The New Jersey teenager who sued her parents for not paying her college tuition moved back into their home – but still hasn’t dropped the lawsuit, a lawyer for her parents said on Wednesday.

Rachel Canning, 18, returned to her parents’ house in Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, said attorney Angelo Sarno, who represents Sean and Elizabeth Canning.

“I’m not here to comment on what the motivation is for this event. She’s just a kid and she’s home,” Sarno said at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

But while the family may have hashed-out some of its emotional problems — which blew up after the teen voluntarily moved out last fall — the legal conflict is still “pending,” Sarno said.

The deal is that the lawsuit is still pending…There has never been a settlement,” Sarno added.

Elizabeth and Sean Canning cry during the hearing.Photo: AP/Pool

Rachel had been living with a powerful attorney, John Inglesino, a father of one of her friends, since October.

She moved out of her parents’ home because she didn’t want to abide by a curfew or stop hanging out with a bad-influence boyfriend , her parents have claimed.

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