Back on November 18, 2008, a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had awarded Denise Carey $67,000 in her lawsuit against her home city of Wilkes-Barre. Carey in 2004 had headed up a local initiative petition. After her petition had been rejected because of a challenge to the validity of the signatures, the state court that had rejected her petition had ordered her to to pay $11,056 to the people who had challenged her initiative petition. Carey had then sued Wilkes-Barre, arguing that such an order violates her First Amendment rights. The federal jury that heard her case had awarded damages to her.
On September 18, 2009, the U.S. District Court Judge in Carey’s federal case rejected Wilkes-Barre’s attempt to set aside the jury verdict. The city says it will now appeal the ruling to the Third Circuit. Thanks to Carl Romanelli for this news. Here is a news story.
Pennsylvania, That is one corrupt State! Our they still a part of the USA? Obvious that the Republican and Democrat parties have control of the rules and don’t want the people to have access to public office and political power. Shame on them! They’re un-American.
Will the ONLY thing stopping the nonstop violation of the nearly dead U.S.A. Constitution be $$$ damages on State/local election regime MORONS — to even perhaps bankrupt them — as examples to reduce the number of MORONS in various public offices ???