Judge Rules Legal Group Can Recoup Nearly $900,000 for Document Suit (Judicial Watch)

AP ^ | 8-5-05

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge awarded conservative legal group Judicial Watch nearly $900,000 for attorney fees and costs stemming from suits for documents related to Commerce Department trade missions in the 1990s.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled last week that the group should be reimbursed for some costs incurred during roughly 10 years of litigation with the department.

Judicial Watch sued the Commerce Department in the 1990s for information about the department's trade missions in an effort to document whether businesses won seats on those missions in return for donations to the Democratic Party.

The legal group sought the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, a law that requires the government to release information to the public and press.

Lamberth said disclosures made as a result of the lawsuits prompted two congressional committees and the Federal Election Commission to investigate, and that the Commerce Department changed its policy for selecting participants in trade missions.

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Well well well ... Klayman really hung in there with this one. Brings back the PTSS of the WH for sale and the disappeared, dapper Ron Brown. So the US Commerce Dept. (we taxpayers) has to fork over the dough?

[TomB]

Judical Watch winning a suit?!

This should be in breaking news. ;-)

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So the US Commerce Dept. (we taxpayers) has to fork over the dough?

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I wonder what the hourly rate was for the attorneys?

[Republic]

So many always made fun of Larry (who is no longer with Judicial Watch, as far as I know) for his honest attempts to bring justice to the horrendous corruption of our government agencies during the klinton kamp's reign of terror. (Who will EVER forget Harold Ickes, to this day, Hillary's gopher, the one who does her dirty work for her, kisses her fat arse and who THREATENED on video tape, to DEFACATE on Larry's Klayman's office floor as he was being questioned in a court ordered deposition by Larry. Ickes is one icky, sticky, filthy human being, devoid of ethics and full of hatred for anything smacking of moral values.)

I am GLAD to hear this.

And I am not surprised to read about Judge Lamberth....he sent me the opinion he wrote in the lawsuit the College of Physicians and Surgeon's brought against hitlery klinton and ira magaziner (another filthy human being who is attached to her heinous at the arse): In this opinion, brought against and named, hitlery and ira, Judge Lamberth ruled that those two pigs were ORDERED to pay the court costs and all associated costs to the College of Physicians and Surgeons BECAUSE they both engaged in an ILLEGAL venue to (my words) plot and plan the ruination of our health care and turn big bucks from it over to hillary's buddies (including ross perot who was going to get to drive the money thing for this huge portion of our economy by running the puter end of things.

Hitlery is a dirtbag.

billy is a out of control predator.

ira and harold and johnny and james and terry lenzner etc, just love their brush with the elites of their party sooooooo much, love the power soooo much, all of them will do anything to keep their bosses happy. Anything.

Good for Judicial Watch!

HURRAH!

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I agree .. Larry's waited an awful long time for a victory .. I wonder if this is a final order or subject to appeal.

As for Ickes ... besides Shrillery, I don't believe you could find a more dastardly or diabolical creature. He's downright ice cold and terrifying ... as in as bad-as-the-mob scary.

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Judicial Watch sued the Commerce Department in the 1990s for information about the department's trade missions in an effort to document whether businesses won seats on those missions in return for donations to the Democratic Party. buying votes?

[Common Tator]

What we have here is a Judge (Lawyer) ording the Government to give nearly a million dollars of OUR money to Judicial Watch and you call that a worthwhile victory for the public!!!!

And it sayst the end result was that the government changed its procedures. Note the story does not say the law suit resulted in anyone being punished or removed from office. The government just changed its procedures on how it did something.

Changing the procedures used to select people does not mean they stopped selecting the same people... They just changed the public reasons for which they selected them.

Judical Watch's only victory is getting a judge to let them take nearly a million bucks of our money.

[bayourod]

The judge erred in awarding the money to Judicial Watch, he should have awarded it to the people who sent their money to Judicial Watch to finance the suit.

Do you think JW will refund to money to the people who actually paid it?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

an effort to document whether businesses won seats on those missions in return for donations to the Democratic Party

Like everything else connected to the Klintons, I'm betting the corruption was a thing to behold. And, like always, the Klinton Admin. operatives will skate in court and/or FEC hearings. But a Republican accepting a Coke and a candy bar in violation of regs would get the gallows.

[jimtorr]

Note the story does not say the law suit resulted in anyone being punished or removed from office.

You may also note that the lawsuit was only about obtaining documents under an FOIA request. Nothing more. They obtained the documents many years ago, thus winning the lawsuit.

This story is only about JW finally being granted legal costs, as the winner of such a suit is entitled to, under the FOIA.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

...plot and plan the ruination of our health care and turn big bucks from it over to hillary's buddies (including ross perot who was going to get to drive the money thing for this huge portion of our economy by running the puter end of things.

Thanks, Republic. I live in Dallas and I was never an admirer of Perot, nor his son, but I could never quite figure out his determination to defeat George H.W. Bush. Some said it was some MIA thing and other crazy rumors but it wasn't Bush after all. It was electing Clinton so he could collect the filthy lucre. That fits him to a tee.