Plame/Wilson Filed Opposition to Motion to Dismiss in Civil Suit (P.S. Who Insures Dick Cheney?)

[CorpGovActivist]

In case you missed this, here is the actual legal brief, in which Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson oppose the defendants' motion to dismiss in the civil suit. With the Scooter Libby criminal trial winding down, we're likely to hear more about the civil suit now: http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/011607WilsonPlaintiffsOpposition.pdf

The Amended Complaint - filed last fall - adds Richard Armitage: http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/091306ArmitageAmendedComplaintFinal.pdf

The Judicial Watch amicus brief (with focus on Cheney's immunity claims): http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/012507JudicialWatchAmicus.pdf

A nice twist of irony is that they're citing the precedent in Paula Jones, to seek to compel a sitting Vice President to testify.

Best to all,

- Dave

On edit: Please see the Dick Cheney sub-thread below, too.

[mmonk]

1. .

http://www.wilsonsupport.org/

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Discovery Rules - Who Insures Cheney? AIG?

Under Rule 26(a)(1)(D) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Cheney's lawyers are required to produce:

"for inspection and copying as under Rule 34 any insurance agreement under which any person carrying on an insurance business may be liable to satisfy part or all of a judgment which may be entered in the action or to indemnify or reimburse for payments made to satisfy the judgment."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/Rule26.htm

- Dave

[mmonk]

5. Time to put that liability insurance into practice.

[CorpGovActivist]

7. Agreed! n/t

[rodeodance]

3. it may be the last chance to get that b*******!!

[Frustratedlady]

4. But isn't it a sad state of affairs that the victim has to sue...

in order to expose this group for what it is? Pretty amazing that our government isn't doing that for them...especially since Valerie was working in such a position FOR the government.

[radfringe]

6. when asked for comments - cheney said

hogwash, it's a frivolous lawsuit... tort reform tort reform akkk akkk

[bleever]

8. Thanks, David.

More fireworks to look forward to.

[TacticalPeek]

9. K & R

:kick:

[Spazito]

10. Thanks for the link, it makes for very interesting reading

It certainly seems the evidence/exhibits provided during the Libby trial bolster the Wilson's civil case. I know I will be watching this case with as great an interest as I have had in the Libby criminal trial.

[CorpGovActivist]

11. If You Want to See the Docket/Other Case Docs...

1. Register for a free PACER account: http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

2. Log on to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's PACER site: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl

3. Look up the case by the docket number, or by party name.

Best,

- Dave

[Spazito]

12. Thanks for the link, I will definitely follow your advice and register!

I have just finished reading the filing found at your link in the OP and the hypocrisy of the defendents Cheney, Rove, Armitage and Libby to argue the case should be dismissed due to the "sensitive nature of the information involved" is completely breathtaking, imo.

[CorpGovActivist]

13. Orwellian Defense, Huh?

Maybe the Wilsons' lawyers should suggest (tongue-in-cheek) that the President simply declassify all that "sensitive" information.

; )

- Dave

[Spazito]

14. LOL, Orwellian indeed!

I have to wonder if the defense team in the Libby criminal case had to limit the exhibits they submitted in Libby's defense because of the Wilsons' civil case and, had the civil case been dismissed prior to, or during, the current trial, would they have provided more documents? It strikes me that, because Libby is named in more than one case, they would have to be cognizant of what documents might well strengthen the Wilsons' case were they to be provided in defense of Libby in the current trial.

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Telling Their Story Once...

... practically anything placed into the record in the criminal trial would have been usable in the civil trial, and deviations in their story from the criminal trial to the civil trial would have been "problematic," to put it mildly.

- Dave

[mmonk]

16. Thanks for those links Dave.

I'm bookmarking now.

[CorpGovActivist]

17. The Libby Criminal Case Docs Should Be Available There, Too n/t