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Governor Rick Scott and the all-Republican Florida cabinet, who together form Floridas Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, claim that the newspaper notice cuts off the public right to challenge the private easement granted to a Koch brothers company, Georgia-Pacific. The easement allows construction and operation of a pipeline to dump tons per day of chronically toxic paper mill waste into the St. Johns River, an American Heritage River. Jeb Bush, over the objection of then-Attorney General Charlie Crist, gave his preliminary approval for the pipeline easement back when he was governor. The petitioners contend that their due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment would be violated by allowing this newspaper notice to cut off their administrative hearing rights to challenge the Georgia-Pacific private easement.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/26/1439161/-UPDATE-Legal-Action-Against-Koch-Brothers-Rick-Scott-Jeb-Bush-Goes-To-U-S-Supreme-Court?detail=emailclassic
Don't know if all of you knew about this suit or not. I didn't but found it quite interesting. The whole story is at the link. I don't know hoe the SCOTUS will rule, but there couldn't be a much more corrupt group of defendants all in one case!
think
(11,641 posts)when they have their exclusive interview on Monday.
Thank you for posting.
Nothing like the legion of doom coming together to dump toxic waste in a river all in the name of corporate profits....
napi21
(45,806 posts)I like to think I stay on top of all things political, and was feeling pretty guilty when I read this on Daily Kos. I HOPE the SCOTUS THINKS a little before just voting in favor of all these Pubs. ilthy water doesn't just harm Dems, ya know.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)laden private pipeline through both public and private property to be discharged without treatment or monitoring directly into a protected waterway, rather than there be wasteful and expensive and time consuming mandatory public hearings? That much toxic liquid waste has to go somewhere! Do folks not want their nice white toilet paper?
Legal question posed for SCOTUS:
"Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows confusing and misleading newspaper notice to cut off the right to an administrative hearing when a state issues a private easement to a portion of a navigable water body."
Why is that even a tough question for the Justices to decide, and then there is the question of the apparent political corruption between the Koch's and the GOP.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)that's majority conservative leaning tea party? That supreme court?
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)I have watched family pods of dolphins just west of the I-95 bridge, and I've been cringing at the knowledge that they're swimming -- and feeding -- in the Georgia-Pacific Koch-suckers' toxic soup.
I've seen local fishers catching fish -- presumably to feed their families -- in that same toxic soup. Dog only knows what carcinogens and other toxins they're ingesting!
I signed the Change.org petition and hope the Supremes agree to hear this case and rule in favor of the plaintiffs.
Do you need any better reason to boycott G-P products, including Dixie cups, Angel Soft, Brawny, Vanity Fair and other tainted Koch Brothers' retail excrement?