My father, a 37-year employee of Diamond Shamrock and associates, just won an appellate argument that allows his case for race/age wrongful termination and ERISA (forced resignation) to be heard in the trial court, which erroneously dismissed it on a technicality relating to whether he should have used a new case number when he refiled. Bush toady and recess labor appointee Peter Kirsanow was opposing counsel until late in the appeal process when he ran off to Washington. He lied during the case, totally.
See, when I was legal redress chair of the Southern NH NAACP I wrote a letter on his behalf, seeking a new NAACP referral attorney because the one he had took his loot, gave him no contract and virtually no service. He conducted no discovery, and promised to work with me as he dismissed the case pursuant to Ohio's Savings Clause -- allowing for a case to be refiled within a year.
But he didn't do shit, so I rolled up my shirt sleeves and wrote a successful appellate brief.
And my Dad is quite the silver tongue in court as well, so now they will have to deal with us.
Another victory for the little people, similar to the worker's compensation appeals I've recently won for immigrants working through my friend's law firm.
Anyway, you can read the sort of sh*t that my father endured in JPEGs right here.
As noted in David Swanson's excellent post below, these are dangerous times for workers, you bet.
Not to mention for outspoken lawyers who represent them.
Incidentally, this post is part of a much larger picture that is being drawn over at KingCast.net -- with video that that haters like the clowns at SCOTUS Justice David Souter's old firm of Orr & Reno can't stand being on line. It is the wave of the future for the proletariat. It is the story of America's downtrodden -- a class of people the size of which is increasing exponentially, sad to say.
As one Kossack notes about my battles with the NAACP:
"...I like your style, even if it's intemperate, it's creative intemperateness. I like that you touched on the way in which hallowed institutions from the civil rights era like NAACP are subject to intense pressures from those outside the organization who wish to subvert the "brand" from within. In this way, legacy institutions end up perverted and co-opted, since at the end of the day all organizations have to be run by real people in real time, in the present moment. If they don't take steps to energetically preserve and adapt their mission to changing times, it's like taking a cruise on the Queen Mary while she sits in dry dock. It's pretty, but you're not getting anywhere."
Here's the letter that NAACP ignored: