So the WTC is suing Saudi Arabia and the AQ network, but I don't really get this.
First of all, I don't believe that a US court can hold another nation responsible for individual actions can we? Doesn't that set a very dangerous precedent? Couldn't other nations sue the US because of Bush's stupidity for example?
I realize the financial motivations of this suit, but I don't realistically know what anyone can expect from this. The only real benefit at first thought is that recovered assets can be diverted to the claimants, but we can't actively pursue any of these people.
Although, if I was AQ, I would be a hell of a lot more worried about an army of lawyers than I would be about GWB.
Suing Al Qaeda
Generally speaking, foreign nations are immune from suit in US courts under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act. However, often enough you can get jursidiction over a foreign governments through one or more of the exceptions that are stated in that law. For instance, there is an exception to the FSIA for 'noncommercial torts' that occur within the U.S. I would imagine that the lawsuit against Saudi Arabia is claiming that particular exception.
Al Queda is not a foreign state and would not be covered by the FSIA unless a court considered it an an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state, which I think would be unlikely.
Al Queda is not a foreign state and would not be covered by the FSIA unless a court considered it an an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state, which I think would be unlikely.
Having said all that, the situation has been handled, so this thread is pretty much at an end. -Kossuth
Goddamned slippery mage.
Goddamned slippery mage.
Umm... what's the point in suing Al Qaeda? I mean, it's not like they are going to show up in court or pay up if some judge says they are supposed to...
Plus they are already criminals so it doesn't seem like there's any point to doing this.
Plus they are already criminals so it doesn't seem like there's any point to doing this.
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Ambar wrote:well we CAN sue McDonald's for a drive thru teller spilling hot coffee on a lady
how dumb to sue a country .... will Saudi pay it's own people for the ones that died? hemm..
WHO is the judge and jury in a case like this?
Actually, the lady spilled the coffee on herself. What i read mentioned
that she placed an uncovered (as in no lid) coffee in her lap (between her
legs), and upon driving away, it spilled in her crotch and burned her
rather severely. So no blame for the drive thru employee. was her
own stupidity that caused her to get burned, so even scarier.
Del.
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Delmair Aamoren wrote:Ambar wrote:well we CAN sue McDonald's for a drive thru teller spilling hot coffee on a lady
how dumb to sue a country .... will Saudi pay it's own people for the ones that died? hemm..
WHO is the judge and jury in a case like this?
Actually, the lady spilled the coffee on herself. What i read mentioned
that she placed an uncovered (as in no lid) coffee in her lap (between her
legs), and upon driving away, it spilled in her crotch and burned her
rather severely. So not blame for the drive thru employee. was her
own stupidity that caused her to get burned, so even scarier.
Del.
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Delmair Aamoren wrote:Ambar wrote:well we CAN sue McDonald's for a drive thru teller spilling hot coffee on a lady
how dumb to sue a country .... will Saudi pay it's own people for the ones that died? hemm..
WHO is the judge and jury in a case like this?
Actually, the lady spilled the coffee on herself. What i read mentioned
that she placed an uncovered (as in no lid) coffee in her lap (between her
legs), and upon driving away, it spilled in her crotch and burned her
rather severely. So no blame for the drive thru employee. was her
own stupidity that caused her to get burned, so even scarier.
Del.
Yeah, but I heard how the coffee was well above the standard regulated temperature, which is where McDonalds was at fault. She didn't just get a little burn like it shoulda been, no instead it fried the hell out of her.
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Sesexe wrote:Delmair Aamoren wrote:Ambar wrote:well we CAN sue McDonald's for a drive thru teller spilling hot coffee on a lady
how dumb to sue a country .... will Saudi pay it's own people for the ones that died? hemm..
WHO is the judge and jury in a case like this?
Actually, the lady spilled the coffee on herself. What i read mentioned
that she placed an uncovered (as in no lid) coffee in her lap (between her
legs), and upon driving away, it spilled in her crotch and burned her
rather severely. So no blame for the drive thru employee. was her
own stupidity that caused her to get burned, so even scarier.
Del.
Yeah, but I heard how the coffee was well above the standard regulated temperature, which is where McDonalds was at fault. She didn't just get a little burn like it shoulda been, no instead it fried the hell out of her.
Temperature definately isn't the issue to me. i mean who puts a lidless
cup of coffee (not that frappucrap) between their legs? hell, who puts a
cup of ANYTHING between their legs without a lid? She was a moron. I
hope the coffee burned her genetalia enough that she doesn't reproduce.
We have enough morons in this world, don't need more.
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