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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:40 PM Original message |
For senior citizens, can we sue or get some group legal action against this? |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. You mean a class action suit??? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. I believe something like that. |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. Furthermore .. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. This is a real problem. We seem to have a |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sue for what specifically? Nothing has happened? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. This would have to be a contingency action. No |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. How can any attorney start working on any law suit under the condictions you describe? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. And they should. |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 12:21 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. File a law suit against the US, in case they do something? |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. Against what? Nothing has happened. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Even if that happens, the fact that they bargained |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. You can't file a lawsuit if there is no law. |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Remember the law suit that was recently tossed in protection of Free Speech? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. Before anything is in place, no. You can't get a restraining order |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. Okay, someone posted in a thread this has been to court which ruled it is not an actual contract. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Maybe that court ruled that, but it should go to other |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Right on Social Security's website: |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Time for activists to clamor for Fleming vs. Nestor to be |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Thanks for following up with that. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Sovereign Immunity? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Whose the sovereign in this case? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. United States. Congress. Agency head. |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. No, the Supreme Court ruled Social Security isn't an enforceable contract... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Fuck the Supreme Court, it's time to make it enforceable. n/t |
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kelly1mm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
19. You have no contractual rights to SS. See Flemming v. Nestor. Link below. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I already looked. I think it was a wrong decision and |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. You know who you might check with, |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Good idea. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Our government thinks all kinds of things that are wrong all the time. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
23. SS is no more a contract than are taxes. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
31. Doesn't matter. Even if it WAS a contract, the courts would be powerless. |
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