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dalton99a

(81,392 posts)
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 03:22 AM Sep 2021

There should be a website to keep track of the bounty hunters and their lawsuits

People who file these lawsuits should be identified as a public service - with all available personal information.

Their privacy must be destroyed.

Let them feel the wrath of the people

When they go low, we kick them in the face



Who pays the $10,000?

If they win, plaintiffs can recover at least $10,000 for each abortion prohibited under the law. The money damages could well run higher if a lawsuit has many defendants in the case, one observer noted.

“The defendant — whether a provider, funder, clergyperson, friend or family member — pays the damages which are set at a minimum of $10,000. If there are several defendants, they each pay $10,000 in damages,” Elizabeth Sepper, a professor specializing in health law and religious liberty at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Law.

“So a single abortion could generate tens of thousands of dollars for the bounty hunter plaintiffs delegated enforcement of this law,” she told MarketWatch.

If a plaintiff wins, the defendants “and any lawyer who dares represent them are on the hook for the plaintiff’s legal fees,” Sepper added. When a case fails, defendants lack the same power to rake money from the plaintiffs for the cost of fighting the lawsuit, she noted.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/texas-abortion-law-10-000-penalty-could-incentivize-bounty-hunters-to-make-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-11630609738
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There should be a website to keep track of the bounty hunters and their lawsuits (Original Post) dalton99a Sep 2021 OP
They can't remain anonymous. madaboutharry Sep 2021 #1
Send in "tips" on the vigilantes. NCjack Sep 2021 #7
A veritable registry ck4829 Sep 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2021 #3
You can kick them in the face. ShazzieB Sep 2021 #4
Insurrectionists are paying far less bucolic_frolic Sep 2021 #5
If someone files a lawsuit, what stops thousands of others from filing rainin Sep 2021 #6
That's a great idea. Do to them what they do to people like school board members trying to Vinca Sep 2021 #8

madaboutharry

(40,190 posts)
1. They can't remain anonymous.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 03:26 AM
Sep 2021

When you file a civil lawsuit it becomes a public record. Their names are easily obtained. Their names can then be published far and wide, like on billboards.

Response to dalton99a (Original post)

ShazzieB

(16,273 posts)
4. You can kick them in the face.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 05:47 AM
Sep 2021

I'll kick them in the balls (the ones that have balls, that is).

Just kicking these creeps in the face would be going too easy on them.

rainin

(3,010 posts)
6. If someone files a lawsuit, what stops thousands of others from filing
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 06:26 AM
Sep 2021

exact copies of the lawsuit naming themselves as the plaintiff? If you don't have to have standing, can't anyone sue?

I'm imagining some complaint getting posted against an individual, reporting that they assisted in an abortion in some way. Then, entire groups of RWs on the message board filing his/her own suit against that individual.

Essentially, it turns into a mob, financially attacking this one individual.

Am I misunderstanding the potential here?

Vinca

(50,236 posts)
8. That's a great idea. Do to them what they do to people like school board members trying to
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 07:36 AM
Sep 2021

keep kids safe with masks. If they own a business, make it known and shut it down. Snoop into their backgrounds and dig out the dirt and make it public. If people think it's okay to make private, personal, medical decisions for strangers, they need to get a taste of invasion of privacy.

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