Friday, August 13, 2004
Two interesting lawsuits in Pennsylvania: the ongoing case alleging massive petition fraud by Nader signature collectors and a new one:
The first case could hurt Nader, the second could help to destroy him.
On the merits of the first case, here is an attorney for the plaintiff:
One hopes he's right.
- a Philadelphia attorney filed a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of workers hired by the Nader campaign to circulate the petitions and who claim they weren't paid what they were promised.
The first case could hurt Nader, the second could help to destroy him.
On the merits of the first case, here is an attorney for the plaintiff:
- "We know as a matter of provable fact that our [30,000] challenges on a basis of voter registration are right," said Efrem Grail, a white-collar criminal defense attorney at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh who is representing the non-Philadelphia voters in the objection with Daniel I. Booker and Cynthia E. Kernick, also of Reed Smith's Pittsburgh office. "The only ones we're going to be wrong on is when we made a typographical error in putting it into our database, or when we misread handwriting."
One hopes he's right.
