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Judge threw out the case in a summary judgment before the case ever went to court. so he made total -- totally unsubstantiated allegations that never got anywhere. >> and sir, what are your colleagues saying about all of this today? your news room? what is the mood like? and were hearing this effects the entire journalism community but amongst the reporters out there doing this, has anything changed in terms of the attitude at employees on your team? >> when i first heard this on my air this mor...

Knowledge miss mitchell does not have the ability at the sentencing date to pay the fine monies out of pocket. it may be necessary for the court to issue a summary judgment but other than that possibility, that sets forth my understanding as well. >> at this time im going to ask the defendant to stand and be sworn in. >> do you solemnly swear the testimony you shall give in this issue will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? [ inaudible ]. >> thank you. >> please state your...

Steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. im a bull rider make it part of your daily diabetes plan. so you stay steady ahead. we are back. we have been talking about the 2008 case the police shooting case of robbie tolan a minor league baseball player shot by a police officer who surviveded. he was in the driveway of oh his mothers home. i want to come to you, judith on the question of oh civil liability. the tolans attempted to go ...

Then they went for civil liability which gives you money damages. what happens is often for police officers if they are acting within their oh official duty they get what we call qualified immunity which means basically you get off the hook if you were acting as a state official. right? in this case what happens is in summary judgment thats where a lot of cases are kicked out. they never go to trial because, in fact, the courts can rule just are on the paper. they dont have to listen to witness ...

Reference toward law and order over the years. the fact that especially justice scalia got in and joined that one, this is on someones property. the supreme court takes it seriously. the pendulum has swung too far. summary judgment is supposed to be i will take the vips sidectims side and see if they were correct would the officer be liable. summary judgment says he wouldnt be liable so well kick it out. the deference this shows in the lower court cases toward the police is untenable. the tolans...

Interesting case because you have different incentives from different parties here. in other words, both parties here would probably just like to see this sit there and languish. you know, john boehner does not want any type of summary judgment on this. he doesnt want this moved with any quickness. hed like this to last well into 20 is 2015 so that by the time it finally does get dismissed, then they can hem and haw about whether or not theyre going to appeal that. you know, by the time they fin...

Many people thought they did it on purpose to make george zimmerman look guilty. >> youve got that right. you take out 45 seconds in between and it says, is he black. it would seem theyre jumping on the bandwagon of sensationalism. if i can add in -- >> quickly. >> the reason they were able to dispose of the case on summary judgment, they disposed of on it a legal issue them found george zimmerman was a public figure. and florida law like a whole host of issues has some water things around tha...

Between and it says, is he black. it would seem theyre jumping on the bandwagon of sensationalism. if i can add in -- >> quickly. >> the reason they were able to dispose of the case on summary judgment, they disposed of on it a legal issue. they found george zimmerman was a public figure. and florida law like a whole host of issues has some water things around that that required him to show actual malice as opposed to just a regular liable, slander case. >> as people would think theres weird t...

So now he says if you have been held in contempt of congress, why do you continue to draw a federal paycheck? you basically throughouted the u.s. congress, the peoples representatives. why should you get the peoples money? so that is he introducing a bill it to change that. >> thats not going anywhere. >> its not going to go anywhere. meantime, the contempt proceedings against eric holder do continue in federal court in d.c. >> well hear them in about 20035, right? >> no. actually in may. >> in ...

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