I guess for Obama the Jew-cooties of Israel rubbed off on the Americans who happened to be in Israel got in the way of Palestinians trying to slaughter Jews. Even as the families of the victims in Sokolow v. PLO have prevailed in court, Obama will have none of it …
In an unusual legal move, the Obama administration has taken the legal side of the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization in a federal court case that American terrorism victims’ families had already won.
Lawyers for the Justice and State Departments are arguing that the PA and PLO should not have to post a bond showing they can pay the massive damages during their appeal in U.S. federal court.One of the families’ attorneys argued otherwise. “The State Department should stand on the side of the American terror victims and not on the side of the Palestinian suicide bombers,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Israel Law Center.
The jury’s judgment against the Palestinian groups came in a case, Sokolow v. PLO, before Manhattan U.S. District Judge George Daniels in February and could involve penalties of more than $650 million, triple the amount of damages awarded by the jury under U.S. law, plus interest. […]
For defendants to appeal the immense judgment, the judge can require them to post a bond of a substantial portion of the damages in case they lose again. Judge Daniels had said he was likely to order that as “some meaningful demonstration that the defendant is ready and willing to pay the judgment.”
However, last week in a strange move lawyers for the American administration, which had not been a party to the lawsuit, sought to save the Palestinians from having to post bond during their legal appeal. That leaves the financial awards to American families uncovered. So, whose side is this White House on?
Obama is not, nor never has been, A Good Man.
Under a normal circumstances, a victor may execute on a monetary judgment the moment it’s entered. An appeal bond prevents execution, but it also guarantees the payment of the judgment if the appellant loses the appeal. Sometimes–where there is an insurance company behind the tortfeasor–an appeal bond is not posted, but that’s because there’s a 100% chance the judgment will be paid and then the waiver is only effective if the plaintiff agrees. I’ve never heard of a court waiving a bond and staying execution. In my state, I’d be laughed out of court if I asked for that, especially if I was not a party to the original case.
Well…after all, this Administration operates out of a Funhouse Mirror, so laughs are expected.
The only satisfactory answer I could possibly give to this question would be a slap upside the asker’s head and a demand to know what rock he’s been hiding under.
Whose side? His own. Always.
Otherwise, that will depend on who or what is in the contest. For instance, against Americans or Israelis he sides with so-called Palestinian Arabs, but against Iran and its proxy Assad, he sides against the so-called Palestinian Arabs — or against the Sunni Arab forces of Syria generally speaking.
Sunni, Shia — let’s call the whole thing off.
Whoever called him an “agent of change” ended the phrase with three incorrect letters, where two — O and S — were the truth.
“So, whose side is this White House on?”
Seriously? Someone needs to ask this question?
Even money says that Obama is going to secretly send them American taxpayer moneys to offset the judgment, so that it will be the American taxpayers paying off the legal fines of the terrorists.
You cannot have “fundamental change” without the word “mental”…
the criminal hillarity in an orange jumpsuit/pantsuit
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/08/18/fox-news-rattles-hillary-shaky-press-conference-did-you-wipe-server-clean
Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute: What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S. Money?