Attorney Is Mad as Hell & Won't Take It

[The Straight Story]

Attorney Is Mad as Hell & Won't Take It

CHICAGO (CN) - An out-of-county attorney sick of watching members of the Will County Bar stroll into a courthouse, while he and other nonmembers wait in "long, time-consuming security lines with the general public," filed a federal class action against the Will County Sheriff and the county Bar Association.

Gary Peterlin, of LaSalle County - two counties west of Will - says the defendant Will County Sherriff's Office recently began requiring attorneys who are not a member of the Will County Bar Association to "wait in long, time-consuming security lines with the general public and pass through metal detection equipment subjecting the attorneys to a search of their person and belongings."

Peterlin, who says the new rule violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, seeks a return to better days.

For many years, lawyers could enter the Will County Courthouse without going through security by displaying a card issued by the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, he says.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/12/20/42384.htm

[geckosfeet]

1. I have not been in a courthouse in years but the fact that anyone, much less attorneys

are exempt from security requirements is crazy. Why screen anyone if you do not screen everyone. Anyone can carry a gun or a bomb.

[treestar]

2. Hope he wins

That kind of stuff makes me angry.

[newfie11]

3. HA, screening here in Scottsbluff ain't all it should be

I was coming in for jury duty and forgot I had a switchblade knife in my purse (until later). Put my purse down for the woman and she searched through it finding NOTHING!

Of course after I got home I remembered and sure enough it was still there. Now this knife is old. It has a habit of opening up on its own in my purse and sure enough it was wide open.

Maybe my husband is right in that no one can find anything in my purse.