2aHawaii
General Topics => Legal and Activism => Topic started by: changemyoil66 on February 26, 2025, 03:31:37 PM
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Taken from a FB HI gun post.
"This hasn't made news headlines, but this recent SCOTUS decision concerning attorneys fees paid in civil rights lawsuits will stop a lot of 2A lawsuits from being filed from now on. SCOTUS decided in Lackey v Stinnie that attorney's fees are only required to be paid on a final court decision whereas in the past fees were paid when attorneys won on preliminary injunctions
This affects our private practice attorneys like Alan Beck. For example on Wolford v Lopez (sensitive places), if we win a preliminary injunction at SCOTUS then Hawaii changes the law to comply before the District Court final decision is made. Under this current ruling Alan Would receive $0 for his hundreds of hours of work even if he won the case. Hard to make a living like that working alone. Only the well funded organizations like SAF and NRA can absorb those loses but they rarely file lawsuits in Hawaii (SAF did fund the young adults 2A lawsuit recently).
This is why we cannot rely on lawsuits to protect the 2A. It's up to the 2A leaders like us instructors to prevent bad laws from popping up in the legislature. All of us instructors have to play a bigger role in protecting the 2A."
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Seems like a continuation of weaponizing the justice system against anyone who opposes the government or other deep pocket defendants.
The process is the punishment.
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Seems like a continuation of weaponizing the justice system against anyone who opposes the government or other deep pocket defendants.
The process is the punishment.
financially punished even if you're innocent.