Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees

[strollingbones]

BALTIMORE - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.

On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court



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well this is one of the wtf moments? i dont even have a clue how they found the father responsible for the fees of phelps people but that is what phelps and his followers do...they go into towns and sue the police etc. most of his kids are lawyers....

 

[strollingbones]

update: dad tells them he will not pay.....

FOXNews.com - Marine's Father Will Not Pay Court-Ordered Funeral Protesters' Fees

 

[del]

update: dad tells them he will not pay.....

FOXNews.com - Marine's Father Will Not Pay Court-Ordered Funeral Protesters' Fees

good for him-this is just plain fucked

 

[Old Rocks]

Totally bad cess.

 

[RodISHI]

Judge Reduces Verdict in Snyder v. Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church Still on the Hook for $5 Million | Citizen Media Law Project

"Judge Reduces Verdict in Snyder v. Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church Still on the Hook for $5 Million"
Posted February 8th, 2008 by David Ardia
in

* Maryland
* Defamation
* Intrusion
* Legal Threat

Earlier this week, a federal District Court judge in Maryland more than halved a $10.9 million jury verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist Christian church in Kansas, and three of its leading members. Among other things, the church publishes a website at "www.godhatesfags.com" and advocates the view that God kills U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality. Westboro Baptist has gained notoriety in recent years for staging protests at the funerals of U.S. soldiers in order to draw attention to its message.

More to the whole story than the report is saying.

Snyder v. Phelps | Citizen Media Law Project


Snyder v. Phelps - Google Search

 

[jillian]

update: dad tells them he will not pay.....

FOXNews.com - Marine's Father Will Not Pay Court-Ordered Funeral Protesters' Fees

good for him-this is just plain fucked

I'm not sure how the winning side ends up paying the losers' costs. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that before.

I need more info. Doesn't make sense at all.

 

[random3434]

Judge Reduces Verdict in Snyder v. Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church Still on the Hook for $5 Million | Citizen Media Law Project

"Judge Reduces Verdict in Snyder v. Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church Still on the Hook for $5 Million"
Posted February 8th, 2008 by David Ardia
in

* Maryland
* Defamation
* Intrusion
* Legal Threat

Earlier this week, a federal District Court judge in Maryland more than halved a $10.9 million jury verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist Christian church in Kansas, and three of its leading members. Among other things, the church publishes a website at "www.godhatesfags.com" and advocates the view that God kills U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality. Westboro Baptist has gained notoriety in recent years for staging protests at the funerals of U.S. soldiers in order to draw attention to its message.

More to the whole story than the report is saying.

Snyder v. Phelps | Citizen Media Law Project


Snyder v. Phelps - Google Search

From your link:

The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist Christian church that contends that God kills soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality and for the presence of gays in the U.S. military. The church operates a number of websites, including Westboro Baptist Church Home Page, on which it disseminates its rabidly anti-homosexual views. The church has gained notoriety for staging protests at the funerals of U.S. soldiers in order to draw attention to its message.

Albert Snyder's son, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, was a U.S. Marine who was killed on March 3, 2006 during active service in Iraq. His body was returned to the United States, and his family held a funeral for him on March 10, 2006 in Westminster, Maryland.

Westboro Baptist Church pastor and founder Fred Phelps and members of his congregation picketed Matthew's funeral, holding signs expressing anti-gay, anti-American, and anti-Catholic slogans, including "God hates you" and "You're going to hell."

Westboro Baptist Church also posted an essay on its website entitled "The Burden of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder." In the essay, statements indicated that Albert and his wife “raised [Matthew] for the devil,” “RIPPED that body apart and taught Matthew to defy his Creator, to divorce, and to commit adultery,” “taught him how to support the largest pedophile machine in the history of the entire world, the Roman Catholic monstrosity,” and “taught Matthew to be an idolator.”

On June 5, 2006, Snyder filed a lawsuit in federal court in Maryland against Westboro Baptist, Fred Phelps, and anonymous members of the church congregation. The complaint included claims for defamation, two counts of invasion of privacy (intrusion on seclusion and publicity given to private life), and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

 

[RodISHI]

Westboro Church Protests Head To Supreme Court

A jury in Baltimore awarded Albert Snyder damages for emotional distress and invasion of privacy, but a federal appeals court threw out the verdict. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the signs contained "imaginative and hyperbolic rhetoric" protected by the First Amendment.

 

[SFC Ollie]

My wife is very glad that these people have never protested at a funeral where I was in attendance. She really does not want to pay my bail.

 

[jillian]

That's what happens when 'the most conservative' circuit in the country makes rulings.

nuts...

 

[Old Rocks]

Jillian, are you kidding? This is the "most conservative circuit" in the US? LOL. That is totally freakin' hilarous. I cannot believe the reversal of the original judgement, let alone the ruling against the Snyder family.

 

[jillian]

Jillian, are you kidding? This is the "most conservative circuit" in the US? LOL. That is totally freakin' hilarous. I cannot believe the reversal of the original judgement, let alone the ruling against the Snyder family.

The Fourth Circuit is known among lawyers as the most conservative circuit in the country. I'm just relating what we know.

I don't believe it either except that these judges think g-d hates fags. *shrug*

 

[AquaAthena]

BALTIMORE - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.

On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court

Exactly! A real WTF moment. What is society coming to? Radical leftist judges?



Read more: Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees | Featured Story | Wichita Eagle


well this is one of the wtf moments? i dont even have a clue how they found the father responsible for the fees of phelps people but that is what phelps and his followers do...they go into towns and sue the police etc. most of his kids are lawyers....

Exactly! A real WTF moment. What is society coming to? Radical leftist judges?

 

[CrimsonWhite]

That's what happens when 'the most conservative' circuit in the country makes rulings.

nuts...

It used to be, but isn't really anymore.

Onset of Alzheimer's Forces Chief Judge of 4th Circuit Appeals Court to Retire - washingtonpost.com

 

[rdean]

Come on people. Get real. Phelps is a "Christian who hates gays". That makes him a "Republican National Hero". AND there's the bonus of him exercising his "constitutional right" of free speech.

If fat teabaggers could get their hands above their heads, they would be carrying him on their round shoulders.

Just keepin' it "real".

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Come on people. Get real. Phelps is a "Christian who hates gays". That makes him a "Republican National Hero". AND there's the bonus of him exercising his "constitutional right" of free speech.

If fat teabaggers could get their hands above their heads, they would be carrying him on their round shoulders.

Just keepin' it "real".

Are you a natural asshole or do you have to work at it? Either way, why don't you fuck off.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Come on people. Get real. Phelps is a "Christian who hates gays". That makes him a "Republican National Hero". AND there's the bonus of him exercising his "constitutional right" of free speech.

If fat teabaggers could get their hands above their heads, they would be carrying him on their round shoulders.

Just keepin' it "real".

See my post #9 and fuck off asshole.

 

[random3434]

Come on people. Get real. Phelps is a "Christian who hates gays". That makes him a "Republican National Hero". AND there's the bonus of him exercising his "constitutional right" of free speech.

If fat teabaggers could get their hands above their heads, they would be carrying him on their round shoulders.

Just keepin' it "real".

Now come on rdean.

That's not fair to say. Phelps and his ilk DO NOT represent Christians anymore than those nutters in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that were planning to murder those police officers.

I don't think there are ANY Phelps crew in the Tea Party movement, that is about politics, not religion.

Please don't make sweeping generalizations like this.

 

[strollingbones]

hell this is about one thing.....money

 

[CaféAuLait]

Come on people. Get real. Phelps is a "Christian who hates gays". That makes him a "Republican National Hero". AND there's the bonus of him exercising his "constitutional right" of free speech.

If fat teabaggers could get their hands above their heads, they would be carrying him on their round shoulders.

Just keepin' it "real".

Republican? Phelps is a Democrat.

Phelps is a registered DEMOCRAT. He started his hate filled Church in 1955 and from 1990 to 1998 ran on Democratic tickets for the Democratic Governor --- sometime garnering 30-40 percent of the DEMOCRATIC vote up to 50,000 votes while running ---all while running his hate filled "Church". So this was no secret for Democrats voting for him in the tens of thousands...



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