RE: Kirkland police threaten Politech with lawsuit

[Sandy Sandfort]

Tim wrote:

> Yes, but cases are often dismissed
> quickly by courts "as a matter of
> law."

Well actually, they are most often dismissed for "failure to state a cause
of action."

> So if I sue my neighbor because I
> don't like the color of the shirts
> he wears, the case gets tossed.

Might be different, though, if he wore a shirt bearing the words, "I'm going
to kill Tim May."

> The question I hope to hear from
> Declan on is whether the Kirkland
> lawyers are citing some law against
> reporting on their cops, or merely
> don't like what he did.

Yeah, knowing their claimed cause of action would help.


 S a n d y