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This appeal is now scheduled for oral argument on 23rd June 2009, in the Ceremonial Courtroom (9th Floor), Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, Manhattan, New York City, and is open to attendance by the general public.
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Was thinking we'd slipped into a timewarp or something because this case was dismissed 'with prejudice' last year but it seems you're correct and an appeal is to be heard.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Was thinking we'd slipped into a timewarp or something because this case was dismissed 'with prejudice' last year but it seems you're correct and an appeal is to be heard.
It was dismissed with prejudice. "With prejudice" means they can't file any more lawsuits on those same grounds. They can still file an appeal, ans it was almost a given they'd file an appeal. Everyone files an appeal.
FYI an appeal doesn't mean they're going to try the case all over again. It means they want a higher court to review the ruling in case any mistakes or evidence was withheld that unfairly influenced the ruling, and Jones/Reynolds are going to need more than "we don't like the way the court ruled" for it to go anywhere. Their "energy weapons from outer space" claims didn't have a microbe of proof to back it up to begin with.
I wouldn't count on this doing anything more than fizzling out like a wet match, if I were you.
Originally posted by CB_Brooklyn
Why are people so ignorant to the facts?
If anyone has taken the time to read the FULL press release instead of the tiny quote in the top post, you will see the following:
Contrary to what Dr Wood’s critics say, her Qui Tam submissions do not discuss the use of “ray beams from space”, but they focus on a number of pieces of evidence which indicate the presence of field effects in and around the WTC complex on 9/11.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by CB_Brooklyn
Why are people so ignorant to the facts?
If anyone has taken the time to read the FULL press release instead of the tiny quote in the top post, you will see the following:
Contrary to what Dr Wood’s critics say, her Qui Tam submissions do not discuss the use of “ray beams from space”, but they focus on a number of pieces of evidence which indicate the presence of field effects in and around the WTC complex on 9/11.
Pot calling the kettle black, anyone? If you're going to quote the Judy Wood suit then to quote it properly it behooves you to go the the source, not some pre-digested version of it. Here's the actual court ruling PDF-
Another conspiracy theory smack down
Her entire bit backing the lawsuit was that the true reason for the collapse was directed energy weapons from outer space, and on those grounds, she sued that NIST was knowingly committing fraud by claiming it was due to other reasons, and was thus guilty of conspiring in a coverup. Her suit failed becuase...
a) Just because she disagreed with the NIST report it doesn't mean the NIST report wasn't a legitimate report.
b) She supplied no evidence that NIST knowingly tried to defrad the gov't or anyone else, or that they willfully attempted to cover up anything, and
c) she has no grounds to sue becuase she suffered no injury herself, which is the whole purpose of Qui Tam to begin with
From what I can tell, her appeal is based upon things like the court not taking into account "evidence" there was a conflict of interest I.E. people in NIST having connections to companies making directed energy weapons, but nonetheless she's still basing everything entirely upon her unproven and unprovable "energy beams" hypothesis, so until she can back that up with somethign other than absolutely nothing, all of her subsequent accusations based upon her energy beam weapons hypothesis are going to be shot down in a ball of flame.
I have $100 that says her lawsuits will all be shot down in a ball of flame. Does anyone here have $100 that says they won't?
[edit on 20-6-2009 by GoodOlDave]
Originally posted by CB_Brooklyn
Do I need to tell you, for a second time, that Dr Wood's court case has nothing to do with "outer space"?
Anyone reading the dismissal court paper will see, clearly, that it either was directed by the 9/11 cover-up perps, or, it was written under emotional strain (due to the emotions regarding 9/11).
One must use their common sense and not assume that a document written by a court is legally accurate.
a: Dr Wood is a materials engineering scientist and her Request for Correction is a legal forensic investigation based on an analysis of court-admissible evidence. The court document you link does not refute Dr Wood's analysis.
b: Two points here. First, Dr Wood does not claim NIST defrauded the government. (NIST is part of the government.) Dr Wood claims that the contractors hired by NIST committed fraud via, at minimum, "willful blindness", in that they did not speak up of the evidence of DEW at the WTC. This willful blindness can be assumed via common sense since the contractors in question are manufacturers of directed energy weapons as well as founding sponsors of the Directed Energy Professional Society.
b]Second Dr Wood's RFC is a forensic, legal, court-admissible investigation of the evidence. The dismissal document linked in the quote above does not refute the evidence in Dr Wood's forensic investigation. Instead, it makes comparisons to the JFK assassination and the moon landings.
c: Dr Wood has grounds to sue because she is an American citizen. That is what qui tams are for.
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Well today's the day, in the US of course. It's actually tuesday 24th here in Oz.
Anxious to hear a summary of how the appeal proceedings go which shouldn't be a problem if the hearing is open to the public as was claimed.
Originally posted by CB_Brooklyn
For you to assume court docs are legally accurate shows you don't know much. You are blindly trusting without looking at information. This is because you already made up your mind of what to believe. Nothing will change your mind.
Originally posted by CB_Brooklyn
During Mr Leaphart's rebuttal, one of the judges said something to the effect that Dr Wood merely came to a different conclusion than NIST. Mr Leaphart had to remind the judges that NIST did not analysis the so-called "collapses", as stated in the NIST Report itself! So they did not even form a conclusion.
So, even the judges are finding it difficult to grasp the truth. Hopefully, today's hearing will make it easier.