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For those who think lawsuits are the answer:

J&J knew that asbestos was getting into the talcum powder it was selling across America. This was well established through evidence shown in court from internal J&J e-mails. It sold the powder anyways. Women that came down with cancer because of this filed a lawsuit against J&J. Years of litigation came about and J&J filed appeals against the court rulings and lost those appeals. Instead of paying the couple of billion dollars in restitution to the victims, it moved that unit into a subsidiary that declared bankruptcy. Therefore, no money for the victims.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/johnson-johnson-places-talc-injury-claims-bankruptcy

Now in a decent society, the State AGs would get together and file multiple cases of conspiracy to commit murder against the executives and other perps working for J&J. Alas, the justice system in the US is a complete abortion. The state AGs wouldn't think about doing something against the rich and powerful.

Does anyone really think lawsuits will do anything?

Misc says

For those who think lawsuits are the answer:

J&J knew that asbestos was getting into the talcum powder it was selling across America. This was well established through evidence shown in court from internal J&J e-mails. It sold the powder anyways. Women that came down with cancer because of this filed a lawsuit against J&J. Years of litigation came about and J&J filed appeals against the court rulings and lost those appeals. Instead of paying the couple of billion dollars in restitution to the victims, it moved that unit into a subsidiary that declared bankruptcy. Therefore, no money for the victims.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/johnson-johnson-places-talc-injury-claims-bankruptcy

Now in a decent society, the State AGs would get together and file multiple cases of conspiracy to commit murder against the e...

Those are different lawsuits, class action many years after the fact. Again better than nothing, but often they don't yield much. The one above has direct impact immediately as it is being sued over the right to work. You can't push criminal charges if nobody has committed a crime. I think there should be more often criminal charges in those pharma lawsuits, but it's very hard to prove and individuals will always hide behind the company. On the other hand you don't want to stifle business by allowing frivolous criminal charges against small businesses. Not all lawsuits are the same.

https://www.ntd.com/pentagon-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-vaccine-mandates-on-military-federal-employees-and-contractors_689876.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Service members from all five branches of the military, federal employees, and federal civilian contractors have joined in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The 24 plaintiffs “face a deadline under the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs, and have been refused any religious exemption or accommodation,” according to Liberty Counsel, the Christian legal firm that filed the lawsuit.

The lawsuit (pdf), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, lists President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as defendants.

Plaintiffs are asking the court to issue a temporary restraining order (pdf) to prevent the COVID-19 vaccine mandates from taking effect, and ultimately issue an injunction to prevent the Pentagon from enforcing the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Biden on Sept. 9 issued an executive order requiring almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. Regular testing is not an option.

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I am now an expert witness (pro bono) in a big lawsuit against a large pharmacy chain responsible for their pharmacists (also named) ILLEGALLY PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE.. by refusing to fill IVM. Hey pharmacists still doing this shit: heads up, they're coming for you
10:42 PM · Oct 19, 2021

The Washington Examiner reports that the conservative American Freedom Law Center is representing families in the school district of Saline, Michigan in a suit seeking an injunction on the DOJ’s “recently announced policy… to use federal law enforcement resources to silence parents and other private citizens who publicly object to and oppose the divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the ‘progressive’ Left that are being implemented by school boards and school officials in public school districts throughout the United States, including in the public schools in Saline, Michigan, and in Loudoun County, Virginia.”

The suit is filed in the District Court of Washington, D.C.

“Plaintiffs believe, and it is the law in many states, including Michigan and Virginia, as well as a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, that it is the natural, fundamental right of parents and legal guardians to determine and direct the care, teaching, and education of their children,” the lawsuit read.

“As parents and concerned citizens, Plaintiffs have a right to publicly object to the divisive, false, harmful, and immoral curricula and policies being advanced by SAS [Saline Area Schools] and LCPS [Loudoun County Public Schools]. This right to publicly criticize SAS and LCPS includes the right to do so vociferously and even stridently,” the group noted.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-parents-suing-attorney-general-over-doj-school-board-memo

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

families in the school district of Saline, Michigan

Hey, I know Saline. Small town not far from where I went to middle school and high school in Michigan.

I'm proud of them for standing up to the DOJ.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/19-states-sue-biden-administration-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate_4077074.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors.

Texas sued individually in a federal court in Galveston. Another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Missouri involves Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Yet another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Georgia, involves Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.

The lawsuits come a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he sued the administration over the same vaccine mandate. As of late Friday, the total number of states suing the Biden administration over the mandate is 19.

President Joe Biden on Sept. 9 issued a far-reaching executive order that requires almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment, including civilian federal employees and contractors. The order goes into effect on Dec. 8. Regular COVID-19 testing isn’t an option, but religious or medical exemptions from vaccination may be granted, according to the order. Contractors that don’t comply may lose out on government contracts.

All 19 states seek to block Biden’s requirement, arguing that the mandate violates federal procurement law and is an overreach of federal power. The states also argue that Biden’s vaccine mandate violates the 10th Amendment that separates the power between federal and state governments; uses federal spending to coerce the states, which is unconstitutional; and did not properly allow for 60 days of public comment.

19 states is more than "several".

But if we don't have rule of law anymore, and I think we do not, the lawsuits don't matter. We have rule by Pfizer and Pfauci alone, no democracy and no independent judiciary.

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

mell says

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

Agreed about the women bit (with very narrow exceptions noted for their exceptional nature).

SCOTUS simply refused to issue an emergency injunction, which isn't great, but it's still winding it's way up the Courts, hasn't been totally tossed out.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

mell says

Phony barret and omg!party!Kavanaugh! already rejected Maines health care workers pleas to grant an injunction for religious exemptions until the case can be reviewed "sufficiently", by then of course all have been fired. Also noteworthy all 3 "dissenters" standing up for freedom and the Constitution are males. No scotus womyn voted for freedom, they all voted for medical tyranny. Never put womyn in charge of anything important, this is an eternal truth.

Agreed about the women bit (with very narrow exceptions noted for their exceptional nature).

SCOTUS simply refused to issue an emergency injunction, which isn't great, but it's still winding it's way up the Courts, hasn't been totally tossed out.

True but it doesn't help those getting sacked for now. Yes there have been a few exceptions but while in all male cabinets there is always a decent amount of dissent and application of actual logic and constitutional law in the judicative, womyn 99.99% of the time govern and judge by feelz and herd/partisan impulse. Wish it were different, but kagan, sotomayor et al are completely useless as you know before they hear each case how they will vote

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/louisiana-court-appeal-rules-favor-shreveport-nurses-grants-restraining-order-ochsner-hospital-firing-unvaxxed-employees/

Maybe lawsuits are not the answer.

You may have to wait for an opinion, but you can get a stay in the meantime.

Shenanigans and political courts. More evidence that lawsuits are not the answer.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/vaccine-mandate-lawsuit-lottery/index.html

They are filling suits in a case packing lottery strategy due to the quirky rules regarding challenges to OSHA regulations. They hope a liberal court gets the case rather than a constitutional court.

Shitlibs did not win every court case, they simply filed lawsuits for any and all reason (or no reason at all), but the few they won created precedence.

I cherry picked this episode of Rising with Kim Iversen where she does a very good analysis of the legal arguments presented by the Covid vax mandates. She gives the recent history of court cases and reflects on what the preliminary results might mean. And she cautions that SCOTUS will probably rule strictly on whether corporations and government can or can not impose vaccination requirements, and will leave the danger/effectiveness of the vaccines entirely alone in their reasoning. To that matter, she speculated that Brandon’s mandate will fail, but they’ll uphold the rights of corporations to mandate it.

https://youtu.be/p2wvdUAGzmk

https://reclaimthenet.org/kennedy-mercola-vs-warren-amazon-censorship-first-amendment/

November 13, 2021
Senator Elizabeth Warren is sued for violating First Amendment over Amazon book censorship calls

Yes, having government officials call for censorship does seem like a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

https://reclaimthenet.org/middle-school-teacher-in-massachusetts-sues-after-being-fired-over-facebook-posts/

November 13, 2021
Middle school teacher in Massachusetts sues after being fired over Facebook posts ...

“I don’t think they liked his sort-of conservative speech and the reasons why they fired him were exaggerated, and that’s illegal,” Gagliardi said.

The posts in question were made in the summer of 2020, amid the racial justice protests sparked by the death of George Floyd while in police custody. His posts criticized the idea of “white privilege” and “outward racism.”

In one of the posts, Lioji shared an article from 2019 published by Quillette titled “Why White Privilege Is Wrong – Part 1.” Lioji wrote:

“Anyone who says or writes white male privilege again is a RACIST. I will not condone that kind of racism. So unfriend me if you don’t like it because I am going to unfriend you when I see it. DONE.”

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/112321-12-states-sue-to-end-joe-bidens-covid-shot-mandate

The lawsuit argues that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shot mandate on facilities that receive federal funding for treating patients exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and violates the Social Security Act’s prohibition on regulations that control the hiring and firing of health care workers. It also violates multiple federal laws, the Spending Clause, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

“The Vaccine Mandate causes grave danger to vulnerable persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to protect—the poor, sick, and elderly—by forcing the termination of millions of ‘healthcare heroes,’” the lawsuit reads.

The mandate violates the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution by seeking “to commandeer state-employee surveyors to become enforcers of CMS’s unlawful attempt to federalize national vaccine policy and override the States’ police power on matters of health and safety.”

The mandate targets about a quarter of the nation’s health care workers who have not chosen to get vaccinated, according to CMS.

Along with Montana’s Knudsen, attorneys general from Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia are plaintiffs in the case.

The 12-state coalition filed the lawsuit and motion for a preliminary injunction November 15 in the U.S. District Court for Western District of Louisiana in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit was later consolidated with all other challenges nationwide into the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

https://reclaimthenet.org/teacher-forced-to-resign-after-criticizing-mask-mandates-on-social-media-files-lawsuit/?source=patrick.net

A teacher from South Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the school district board and the superintendent claiming she was forced to resign over a post about mask mandates she made on her personal Facebook account. The lawsuit alleges wrongful termination.

Holly Chapman, a middle school teacher, was an employee of the Berkeley County School District until February this year. She was fired over a video she posted on Facebook criticizing mask mandates.

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/121421-il-health-care-employees-will-seek-damages-from-shot-mandates?source=patrick.net

IL Health Care Employees Will Seek Damages from Shot Mandates
Dec 14, 2021

CHICAGO, IL – Liberty Counsel will ask the federal District Court of Illinois to certify the entire class of health care workers and will seek damages on behalf of those employees who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate by NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Liberty Counsel asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene before the appeal is decided to prevent irreparable harm to NorthShore employees. Even though the Seventh Circuit denied the injunction pending appeal asking for emergency relief, the court granted the motion to expedite the appeal. This denial does not affect the merits of the case. In fact, on November 30, Judge John F. Kness said the plaintiffs are likely to prevail on Title VII and the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act.

In a 27-page decision, Judge Kness stated that NorthShore employees who prevail against NorthShore for its denial of religious exemptions and accommodations will be able to recover money damages including backpay, front pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys fees, and several other forms of damages. Since full compensation is available to those who win against NorthShore, the court concludes that the harms they are facing now are not “irreparable,” as they can be repaired through money damages.

Patrick says

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/121421-il-health-care-employees-will-seek-damages-from-shot-mandates?source=patrick.net

IL Health Care Employees Will Seek Damages from Shot Mandates
Dec 14, 2021

CHICAGO, IL – Liberty Counsel will ask the federal District Court of Illinois to certify the entire class of health care workers and will seek damages on behalf of those employees who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate by NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Liberty Counsel asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene before the appeal is decided to prevent irreparable harm to NorthShore employees. Even though the Seventh Circuit denied the injunction pending appeal asking for emergency relief, the court granted th...

What is "Front Pay"?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/military-members-seek-new-injunction-against-covid-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net

12/16/21
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Military Members Seek New Injunction Against COVID Vaccine Mandates
U.S. military members involved in a lawsuit challenging the military’s COVID vaccine mandate on Dec.10 filed an amended complaint seeking a new injunction after a judge last month rejected the U.S. Department of Defense’s assertion the Pfizer-BioNTech and Comirnaty COVID vaccines are “interchangeable.”

https://notthebee.com/article/school-district-in-california-fights-back-against-newsoms-vax-mandate-in-schools?source=patrick.net

Point after point, directed right at the governor's insane policy.

There's a teacher shortage, we support local decision making, we've been safe since fall of 2020 without these rules, parents are concerned, and oh, by the way, the policy is racist.

This group of folks takes no prisoners.

The school district goes on to resolve to ask Newsom to reverse his decision.

And then, they also resolve to continue with their policy regardless.

They will not deny education, and they will not deny employment based on vaccine status.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-johnson-pharma-funding-terrorism-iraq/?source=patrick.net

A 2017 lawsuit alleging five pharmaceutical companies helped finance terror attacks against U.S. service members and other Americans in Iraq during the “War on Terror” was unanimously reinstated and remanded by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals.

The lawsuit against the five companies in question — Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Roche and GE Healthcare — was dismissed in July 2020 by a federal district court in Washington, D.C. before being reinstated last week.

The lawsuit claims the five companies regularly paid bribes, including free drugs and medical devices, to officials in Iraq’s Ministry of Health between 2005 and 2011, in their efforts to secure drug contracts.

In turn, the suit alleges, these companies’ contracts with the Iraqi health ministry helped “fund terrorism” perpetrated by a Shiite militia that killed Americans during that period.

The militia in question, Jaysh al-Mahdi, or the “Mahdi Army,” maintained control of the health ministry at that time.

The amended lawsuit was filed on behalf of 395 Americans who were killed or injured in Iraq during the six-year period.

https://t.me/greatreject/28282

https://nojabforme.info/?source=patrick.net

For employees not wanting to get the jab ive been reading that people have had success responding with the following

One way to go about it is to require your employer provide proof that no employee can transmit any other communicable disease. An involved citizen writes:

"I made it clear through my lawyer I would begin to demand the status of all other employee's health condition in regards to other forms of communicable diseases. We would be demanding information on employees with AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis, flu, STD, measles, mumps, and so on. My lawyer had the paper already drawn up so I could serve him (the employer) the first day he tried it, and part of the suit would be to force the company to immediately section off employees who had any Illness they could spread including the common cold. If they were going to take responsibility in stopping the spread of COVID-19 in the building, they were now liable for the spread of anything else.

Within 24 hrs we were all informed that they would no longer demand to see our papers."

Greenwald's wiki entry edited to list him as "Far Right" columnist. Greenwald calls and threatens to sue. Wiki editors dispatched with elan to restore previous edit.

https://patrick.net/post/1340137/?comment_id=1812604

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/08/mark-sexton-invites-bbc-and-sky/?source=patrick.net

I doubt it will go anywhere because it incriminates pretty much everyone in power, but it's good to keep trying.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-indian-government-lawsuit-astrazeneca-vaccine-killed-shri-hitesh-kadve/?source=patrick.net

In what may be the first legal case of its kind globally, a petitioner in India is seeking to prosecute Bill Gates, Indian vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla, and Indian government and public health officials over the death of a 23-year-old man who died after receiving AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine.

Kiran Yadav late last year filed a criminal writ petition for murder, Smt. Kiran Yadav v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. (herein referred to as Yadav v. Maharashtra), with the Bombay High Court of Judicature, on behalf of her deceased son, Shri Hitesh Kadve.

Her son was vaccinated on Sept. 29, 2021. According to the complaint, he died that same day due to side effects brought on by the vaccine.

The complaint alleges Kadve died “due to [an] act of willful commission and omission attributable to some public servants who are misusing their position to bring policies to help the pharma mafia and thereby [are] responsible [for] mass murders.”

The complaint further states Yadav’s son was “unwillingly” compelled to get vaccinated based on the “false narrative” that the vaccine was entirely safe, and because the State of Maharashtra prohibited the non-vaccinated from riding on railroads or entering retail spaces such as shopping malls.

Lawsuits are the Answer

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, state court rules

https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2022/01/pennsylvanias-mail-in-voting-law-is-unconstitutional-state-court-rules.html?source=patrick.net

Dr. Malone to sue Washington Post for Defamation over Rally Remarks

No source yet: First hour of Bannon's Warroom direct from Dr. Malone himself.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/states-challenge-vaccine-mandates-healthcare-workers/?source=patrick.net

02/07/22
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COVID › NEWS

16 States File New Lawsuit Challenging Vaccine Mandates for U.S. Healthcare Workers
Attorneys general from 16 states, led by Louisiana, filed a new legal challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for U.S. healthcare workers claiming the mandates are illegal and obsolete, as the vaccines don’t work against Omicron, the dominant variant in the U.S.

Patrick says

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/states-challenge-vaccine-mandates-healthcare-workers/?source=patrick.net

02/07/22
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COVID › NEWS

16 States File New Lawsuit Challenging Vaccine Mandates for U.S. Healthcare Workers
Attorneys general from 16 states, led by Louisiana, filed a new legal challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for U.S. healthcare workers claiming the mandates are illegal and obsolete, as the vaccines don’t work against Omicron, the dominant variant in the U.S.

Calling the mandates obsolete after only about one year of experimental injections is like saying the experiment was a failure. Which is true, and that is completely separate from the fact that mandating an injection of any kind into another human being is unreasonable and therefore a violation of their basic right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Tomorrow I'm going to sit in public with the petition from https://patrick.net/post/1343597/2022-02-07-california-medical-freedom-initiative

I'll just ask people a simple question: "Should you have the freedom to control what goes into your body?"

Actually, truckers are the answer, but I still think lawsuits can help.

https://turnthetide.buzz/legal-action-plans/?source=patrick.net

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/massachusetts-judge-blocks-bostons-covid-19-vaccine-mandate?source=patrick.net

Massachusetts judge blocks Boston's COVID-19 vaccine mandate
The judge's injunction will prevent the firing of union workers and first responders who have opted not to get vaccinated.

By Sophie Mann
Updated: February 16, 2022 - 9:16am

A Massachusetts Appeals Court judge has blocked Boston's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal employees, in response to a suit brought by unions that represent first responders.

Justice Sabita Singh of the Massachusetts Appeals Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the mandate from going into effect, prevents union workers from getting fired for failing to comply with the mandate.

Workers will for now be able to opt for routine testing instead of vaccination.

https://abc7news.com/santa-clara-university-booster-mandate-students-sue-childrens-health-defense-california-covid-vaccine-lawsuit/11637284/?source=patrick.net

https://reclaimthenet.org/concordia-professor-suspended-over-blog-post-about-woke-ism-pushes-back/?source=patrick.net

Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW) suspended professor Gregory Schulz days after he published an article criticizing the university. The administration suspended him without affording him an opportunity to answer to the misconduct allegations, according to Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

In an article published on February 14 by Christian News titled “Woke Dysphoria at Concordia.” Schulz accused CUW of “coming under the influence of Woke-ism (that is, a potent cocktail of Progressivism, NeoPragmatism, and Marxism).” According to him, that contradicts the university’s Lutheran principles.

On Friday, February 18, the university’s president William Cario emailed Schulz asking to meet that afternoon. Schulz did not make the meeting because he had classes to teach, so he asked to reschedule the meeting for the following Monday.

Cairo refused to reschedule and sent Schulz a notice informing him that he was suspended pending an investigation. He was accused of misconduct because the article was “conduct unbecoming a Christian,” disclosed confidential information, and violated certain limitations on academic freedom.

Schulz was suspended from teaching, banned from campus, and prohibited from contacting any member of the CUW community, including students and colleagues, without Cario’s permission. He was also threatened with further sanctions and termination if he did not publicly recant the article.

In a letter demanding Schulz reinstatement, FIRE notes that the suspension was conducted without due process, which the university promised in Schulz contract. He was not properly informed about the allegations nor was he given ample time to respond to the allegations.

We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.

FIRE also claims that the suspension was a violation of academic freedom, which includes the freedom to criticize an institution’s leadership.

https://therightscoop.com/massachusetts-university-sued-after-asking-applicant-to-defend-her-whiteness-during-interview/?source=patrick.net