U.S. District Court orders Chicago to reimburse NRA $940,000

[Mark 1911]

Gotta love it!

The U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois has ordered the City of Chicago to reimburse $940,000 in legal expenses incurred by the NRA. The NRA had challenged Chicago's ban on gun sales within city limits in Benson v. City of Chicago. The Benson case was consolidated into Illinois Association of Firearm Retailers v. City of Chicago and that case challenged five aspects of Chicago's law: the ban on any form of carriage; the ban on gun stores; the ban on firing ranges; the ban on self-defense in garages, porches, and yards; and the ban on keeping more than one gun in an operable state. This is the second time that the City of Chicago has been ordered to reimburse legal fees in a suit sponsored by the NRA.

https://www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation?fref=nf

NRA-ILA | City of Chicago Ordered to Pay NRA's Legal Fees - Again

 

[snowwalker]

I do love it and would like to see more of it!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[GIJEW]

until they have to pay with THEIR money, they'll keep on doing the same stuff as a matter of principle: "it's for the children!!!"

 

[HoughMade]

Let's hear it for 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b)!

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Hip hip, hooray!

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[JeremiahJohnson]

Did they pay last time?

Will they pay this time?

 

[K_W]

Did they pay last time?

Will they pay this time?

A comment on the NRA Facebook page, from the NRA themselves, says Chicago did pay the first time.

 

[Redhorse]

Did they pay last time?

Will they pay this time?

They have to if so ordered by the court.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

They have to if so ordered by the court.

Not necessarily. I know more than one that got court ordered payments - one from Allstate insurance. They did not pay. Had to sue for payment then settled for less payment. Rediculous.

I wish someone had the money to buy an add in The Sun Times - a whole page - and say Thank You for the $600,000 Chicago, and thanks in advance for another $940,000! Didn't know you were such a big supporter! Signed, The NRA.

 

[Redhorse]

Not necessarily. I know more than one that got court ordered payments - one from Allstate insurance. They did not pay. Had to sue for payment then settled for less payment. Rediculous.

I wish someone had the money to buy an add in The Sun Times - a whole page - and say Thank You for the $600,000 Chicago, and thanks in advance for another $940,000! Didn't know you were such a big supporter! Signed, The NRA.

How is that legal? Wouldn't they face some sort of penally?

 

[spec4]

For the NRA, that's what they would get if 26,857 people joined up.

 

[HoughMade]

How is that legal? Wouldn't they face some sort of penally?

There's always more to the story. If I really want to collect a debt, especially against an established corporation, I have many options....most of which involve the corp. paying for the fees incurred collecting the debt.

 

[Redhorse]

There's always more to the story. If I really want to collect a debt, especially against an established corporation, I have many options....most of which involve the corp. paying for the fees incurred collecting the debt.

Wow, i am surprised.

 

[HoughMade]

Why? Do people assume that when a court orders a payment to be made that the person who had to be taken to court get's agreeable all of a sudden? There is no debtor's prison and no "court order" police to turn you upside down and shake the change out of your pockets. I can attach and garnish bank accounts, I can have property seized (in the right situation) I can have sanctioned added to the debt.....but there's no real way to physically force a judgment to be paid in any efficient​ manner.

 

[Expat]

So will the NRA send Rahm a Life Member jacket?

 

[SteveM4A1]

So will the NRA send Rahm a Life Member jacket?

Now that's good stuff right there.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

So will the NRA send Rahm a Life Member jacket?

I could see it happening if he sent in $941,000. I doubt he qualifies for any sort of discount.

 

[ModernGunner]

And Chicago's about to get sued some MORE, LOL! For gun store 'restrictions', and for CCW denials.

See, the libtards just never learn.

 

[LarryC]

The only thing I can say is the NRA didn't charge enough! Should have added at least one more Zero to the number.