AoA!! Praise the holy lord
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sonia (aka Antonia) Maino and her sycophants suffered a massive defeat when a New Jersey court threw out the lawsuit brought upon those who placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times against Sonia Maino. Congratulations to the victors!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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08-17-2008, 03:26 AM (This post was last modified: 08-17-2008, 03:27 AM by dhu.)
<b>US court dismisses suit seeking damages for anti-Sonia advts</b>
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A New Jersey court has dismissed a defamation suit filed by a US-based group seeking 100 million dollars from several parties for allegedly maligning Congress President Sonia Gandhi during her visit here last year, saying the outfit has no locus standi to claim damages.
The case was filed by the Indian National Overseas Congress against the parties for bringing a full-page advertisement in New York Times that levelled several accusations against Sonia and her son Rahul coinciding with the UPA chairperson's visit to the UN last year.
The defendants' lawyer Marc D Haefner said the judge yesterday held that INOC was not the proper party and did not have the locus standi to bring a claim of defamation because none of the statements were of or about it.
A detailed judgment would be made available next week.
IONC had filed two separate cases relating to the full-page advertisement, one in New Jersey and another in New York, demanding USD 100 million in actual, compensatory, and punitive damages in addition to costs and disbursements, legal fee and other relief that the court might consider proper.
Both IONC and defendants in the case filed in New York have already filed written submissions and oral arguments were scheduled for October 2.
The case in New York was filed against Narain Kataria and Arish Sahani of "Forum for Saving Gandhi's Heritage" whose names appeared in the advertisement.
The defendants in the New Jersey case were Hindu International Council Against Defamation, Mahatma Gandhi International Foundation, Hindu International Council Against Defamation, Mahatma Gandhi Center and Hindu Temple, Naresh Sharma, Satyanarayana Dospati and Sunanda Thali whose names appeared on the advertisement.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
NY state case - NRI Cong stooges fold like cheap folding suitcase. Now a counter suit filed and summons for Sonia's presence in US Courts.
came via email:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi has suffered another humiliating defeat in the New York State Supreme Court today. On her behalf the overseas Congress President Dr.Sunil Malhotra had filed a hundred million dollar defamation suit against some NRI activists for getting published a full page advertisement in the New York Times on the eve of Ms. Sonia Gandhi's visit to the UN headquarters in connection with a programme on Gandhi Jayanti. The said defamation materials were taken from the website www.janataparty.org.
The Congress Party on behalf of Ms. Sonia Gandhi thereafter filed a defamation suit in two courts, one in New Jersey and the other in New York. The New Jersey Court threw out the petition on August 15 on the ground that Ms. Sonia Gandhi should have appeared in person before the Court to defend herself which she had declined to do. <b>The New York case was to be heard on October 2nd, but today the Counsel for the Congress Party has written a letter to the NRI activists stating that they are "discontinuing the case" and withdrawing it from further hearing. This is a humiliating defeat for the leader of the ruling coalition in a nation of a billion people. </b>Considering that a hundred million dollars were claimed as damages, this points to recklessness of the litigation. The NRI activists are now preparing to file a suit for damages of ten million dollars against Ms. Sonia Gandhi and seek a summons for her presence in the US Courts.Â
Mudy,
These guys are re-filing the case. Not in NY, but in NJ. And they have reduced the asking amount to $20M from $100M. Of the five main points, only one they are contesting on is the Setu issue (i.e, $20M is 1/5th).
Rama Setu issue watchers should follow this one closely.
This will be interesting, we may see all Weasels, FOSA, FOIL, and Indian Embassy will be out campaigning against this.
We have to monitor name and where they go for preaching e.g Temples, Association, cities etc.
US court dismisses $20m lawsuit against anti-Sonia ad
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Final nail coffin.
Now we know, whenever she visits US. Bring same type of Ad, because it irritates her and law will support good NRIs. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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