Federal Court Says Colo. Man Can Sue Secret Service Agents in 2006 Case Involving Dick Cheney

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Federal court says Colo. man can sue Secret Service agents in 2006 case involving Dick Cheney

By The Associated Press, Monday, March 14, 9:41 PM
DENVER — A Colorado man can sue two Secret Service agents who arrested him after he touched former Vice President Dick Cheney on the arm in 2006 and told him his Iraq War policies were “disgusting,” a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The ruling means Steven Howards can try to subpoena Cheney to testify about the incident, said David Lane, Howards’ attorney.

“I fully intend on deposing the former vice president,” Lane told The Associated Press.

Lane has been trying for years to subpoena Cheney, but his motion has been delayed as judges weighed the question of whether the Secret Service agents were immune in the case. He has said he wants to subpoena the former vice president because he’s “the best eyewitness to the case.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/federal-court-says-colo-man-can-sue-secret-service-agents-in-2006-case-involving-dick-cheney/2011/03/14/ABY66zV_story.html

[Poll_Blind]

1. GOOD!

PB

[Demeter]

2. We Must Do Something

since the government won't.

[bluestateguy]

3. Conservatives said Bill Clinton should have to be deposed over his extramarital affairs

Hence, surely a former vice president can be deposed too.

[midnight]

4. We should hear from "the best eyewitness to the case".

[udbcrzy2]

5. The opinion is here

link if anyone wants to read the opinion
http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/09/09-1201.pdf

[boppers]

8. Thanks!

Yes, I'm a reader-type.

[niyad]

6. it's about damned time

[Marie Marie]

7. Oh goody - another subpoena that The Dick can just ignore.

Do you think that this cowardly Chicken Hawk wet himself when he realized that a critic had actually gotten close enough to him to touch him? After all, his arm is not in the Free Speech Zone.

[fishwax]

9. good to hear!

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