Comments on: SOS: Financial Whistleblowers Under Attack From Industry http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/07/29/sos-financial-whistleblowers-under-attack-from-industry/ Danny Schechter's daily media dissections Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Paul Palmer http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/07/29/sos-financial-whistleblowers-under-attack-from-industry/#comment-8485 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:55:16 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/07/29/sos-financial-whistleblowers-under-attack-from-industry/#comment-8485 Danny: You probably are not aware of this but any thought that the California SLAPP suit legislation is used to achieve its nominal goals of protecting whistleblowers from baseless punitive government and corporative suits can be forgotten. Power never relents. Now California cities (others?) have a powerful new tool to silence complainers. They hit them with a SLAPP suit claiming that the citizen is baselessly complaining against a legitimate governmental program. Yes, the SLAPP act is used precisely against the very party it was nominally supposed to protect. I have seen it used by a city against a citizen complaining about corruption in the building department. And of course the compliant judges go right along with this distorted use. When a city sues a citizen, the citizen doesn't stand a chance in the courts. The city is always right. Danny:
You probably are not aware of this but any thought that the California SLAPP suit legislation is used to achieve its nominal goals of protecting whistleblowers from baseless punitive government and corporative suits can be forgotten. Power never relents.
Now California cities (others?) have a powerful new tool to silence complainers. They hit them with a SLAPP suit claiming that the citizen is baselessly complaining against a legitimate governmental program. Yes, the SLAPP act is used precisely against the very party it was nominally supposed to protect. I have seen it used by a city against a citizen complaining about corruption in the building department.
And of course the compliant judges go right along with this distorted use. When a city sues a citizen, the citizen doesn’t stand a chance in the courts. The city is always right.

]]> by: JanB http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/07/29/sos-financial-whistleblowers-under-attack-from-industry/#comment-8469 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:05:17 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/07/29/sos-financial-whistleblowers-under-attack-from-industry/#comment-8469 You have GOT to be kidding!! Implode-O-Meter is one of the BEST sites going, for consumers who want the straight scoop, unvarnished TRUTH about what is going on in the mortgage industry. This is an absolute outrage and any judge with half a brain would have shot it down immediately. What is this world coming to?? JanB You have GOT to be kidding!!
Implode-O-Meter is one of the BEST sites going, for consumers who want the straight scoop, unvarnished TRUTH about what is going on in the mortgage industry.
This is an absolute outrage and any judge with half a brain would have shot it down immediately. What is this world coming to??

JanB

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