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Maybe US govt will pay our legal fees?

mpollard Jan 26, 2012 07:05 PM

Time to take a page out of HSUS and Defenders of Wildlife playbook?

"Two sources of federal money provide reimbursement for legal fees for any individual or organization that files a lawsuit against the federal government and wins. One, called the Judgment Fund..."

"The second method is through the Equal Access to Justice Act, which was aimed at helping individuals and small businesses take on the federal government.The EAJA prohibits reimbursement to for-profit corporations worth more than $7 million; however, non-profit groups are exempt. It’s not as though the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which filed at least 409 lawsuits and 165 appeals in federal courts in the last 10 years, needs the money. They claimed a net income of $9 million and net assets of more than $6 million in 2008. Defenders of Wildlife raked in $30.7 million from members’ donations, from reimbursed legal fees and from other sources in 2008. HSUS then had about $162 million in net assets; nevertheless, HSUS received nearly $1.5 million from the federal government for 15 legal cases."

http://www.americanhunter.org/articles/we-are-all-funding-anti-hunting-groups/

Somebody with access to a lawyer may want to research this...?

Mark

Replies (2)

mpollard Jan 26, 2012 07:09 PM

Looks like you have to bring suit and win before you can be reimbursed, but still...good to know...worthy of understanding better probably...

Mark

LarM Jan 26, 2012 08:46 PM

Sounds like something U.S.A.R.K. can possibly use on our behalf !

. . . Lar M
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