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Title: YAF Wins Landmark Free Speech Lawsuit, UC Berkeley To Pay $70,000 And Rescind Unconstitutional Policies
Source: Young America’s Foundation
URL Source: https://www.yaf.org/news/yaf-wins-l ... ind-unconstitutional-policies/
Published: Dec 4, 2018
Author: Spencer Brown
Post Date: 2018-12-04 22:17:38 by hondo68
Keywords: 9th Circuit Court, security fee will be zero, $20,000 security for Ben Shapi
Views: 130
Comments: 3

Following more than a year of hard-fought litigation in the hostile Ninth Circuit, Young America’s Foundation secured victory for free speech against the University of California, Berkeley. Through YAF’s lawsuit and subsequent settlement agreement executed over the weekend, UC Berkeley agreed to the following terms set by Young America’s Foundation:

1) Pay Young America’s Foundation $70,000.

2) Rescind the unconstitutional “high-profile speaker policy.”

3) Rescind the viewpoint-discriminatory security fee policy.

4) Abolish its heckler’s veto—protestors will no longer be able to shut down conservative expression.

This landmark victory for free expression means UC Berkeley can no longer wantonly treat conservative students as second-class members of its community while ignoring the guaranteed protections of the First Amendment.

No longer can UC Berkeley place a 3:00 p.m. curfew on conservative speech. No longer can UC Berkeley ban advertisements for Young America’s Foundation-sponsored campus lectures. And no longer can UC Berkeley relegate conservative speakers to remote or inconvenient lecture halls on campus while giving leftist speakers access to preferred locations.

Further, the policy that allowed Berkeley administrators to charge conservative students $20,000 for security to host Ben Shapiro—an amount three times greater than the fee charged to leftist students to host liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor—is gone. YAF and UC Berkeley agreed to a fee schedule that treats all students equally. Unless students are handling money or serving alcohol at an event, the security fee will be zero.

This win for free speech—a blow to radical Antifa mobs—means university facilities will be available to students on a first-come, first-served basis. No longer will the community’s reaction to speech be factored into decisions regarding lecture venues, meaning intolerant leftists cannot use the “heckler’s veto” to determine who is allowed to speak or where they’re permitted to appear.

Transparency and accountability have replaced the notoriously murky process previously enforced by UC Berkeley administrators because Young America’s Foundation, our intrepid counsel led by Harmeet K. Dhillon, and the fearless students in Berkeley College Republicans wouldn’t flinch in this David-versus-Goliath fight.

“Young America’s Foundation is thrilled that, after more than a year of UC Berkeley battling against the First Amendment rights of its own students, the University finally felt the heat and saw the light of their unconstitutional censorship,” said YAF Spokesman Spencer Brown. “YAF’s landmark victory for free expression—long squelched by Berkeley’s scheming administrators who weaponized flawed policies to target conservatives—shows that the battle for freedom undertaken by YAF on campuses nationwide is a necessary one.”

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[Caution: I found this post at "VOAT" / Pizzagate website and cannot vouch for its validity.]

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reached a last-minute settlement today just as jury selection was expected to begin for his trial in Palm Beach, Florida. The 65-year-old 'surrendered' and agreed to an undisclosed financial settlement with attorney Bradley Edwards, who represents several of Epstein's alleged victims. Edwards had sued the financier alleging malicious prosecution and defamation after the billionaire filed a lawsuit attacking Edwards and his methods. Epstein admitted today to making 'totally false allegations.' More than 60 girls have claimed they were turned into sex slaves by Epstein when they were teenagers and Edwards previously won $5.5million for some victims. In this case, which has dragged on since 2009, Edwards was suing the financier for 'malicious prosecution' as the result of a long-running battle between the two men. Epstein had tried to sue the lawyer claiming the civil cases involving three victims financed an unlawful Ponzi scheme run by Scott Rothstein, a partner at Edwards' former law firm. Rothstein was convicted of financial fraud and got 50 years, but denied Edwards had been involved in the scheme. Epstein then dropped his case, but Edwards then sued over his reputation.

The settlement means none of the women will be able to testify against Epstein, who is accused of pimping out 80 underage girls to his friends from 1995 - 2005.

Edwards' lawyer Jack Scarola told the court the climbdown was 'not a compromise but a surrender' by the 'serial sex offender.'

'For the sake of Epstein's victims, Bradley Edwards would not and did not compromise his claims. He did not settle for anything less than a complete surrender by Jeffrey Epstein,' Scarola said.

'While the financial terms of the settlement are required to remain confidential, there are important components that are not confidential.'

He revealed Edwards remains committed to continue with his challenge to Epstein's sweetheart 'non prosecution agreement' that allowed him to escape a possible life sentence and serve just 13 months in a Florida state facility.

He added: 'That will be followed through to conclusion….to set aside the non-prosecution agreement for Jeffrey Epstein and his named and unnamed co-defendants fully responsible for the crime that they have committed.'

Epstein was not in court on Tuesday but his attorney Scott Link read out his apology in which he admitted to lying.

'While Mr Edwards was representing clients against me, I filed a lawsuit against him in which I made allegations about him that the evidence conclusively proves were absolutely false,' he said.

'The truth was that his aggressive investigation and litigation style was highly effective and therefore troublesome to me.'

'The lawsuit I filed was my unreasonable attempt to damage his business reputation and cause Mr Edwards to stop pursuing cases against me. It did not work.'

'Despite my efforts, he continued to do an excellent job for his clients and through his relentless pursuit, held me responsible. I am now admitting that I was wrong and that the things I said to try to harm Mr Edwards' reputation as a trial lawyer were false.'

'I sincerely apologize for the false and hurtful allegations I made and hope for some forgiveness or my acknowledgement of wrongdoing.'

As many as 60 other girls have come forward to claim they were recruited by Epstein into having sex with his coterie of friends and acquaintances while they were aged between 14 and 17. Many were from disadvantaged homes or had troubled childhoods.

The underage girls were lured to Epstein's mansion in Florida with the lure of a couple hundred dollars to give him a massage- he allegedly sexually assaulted many of them

Despite what began as a full-blown FBI investigation into Epstein's alleged prostitution ring of young girls, he was eventually offered a 'sweetheart' deal in 2007 instead of facing a possible life sentence.

Victims were outraged at the court's treatment of the billionaire, who counted Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew among his rich and powerful friends.

He pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges in a Florida state court following an agreement that effectively kicked out a 53-page federal indictment.

The hedge-fund tycoon was sentenced to 18 months and served just 13 in Palm Beach County stockade, not a state prison. He was reportedly allowed out for up to 12 hours a day to visit his office and meet clients.

The 'non prosecution' deal with the state also meant he, his named co-conspirators and his unnamed co-conspirators were given immunity from federal prosecution.

The deal was also sealed from the public and the victims, meaning no one would ever learn the entirety of Epstein's crimes.

The deal was brokered by Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta when he was US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Edwards alleges the deal violated the Crime Victims' Right Act, which states victims should be kept informed of possible hearings and 'reasonably heard' over pleas and sentencing. He wrote in a court filing that if the victims knew about the non-prosecution agreement 'they would have taken steps to object', according to the New York Times. Epstein could be stripped of his criminal prosecution immunity if the case succeeds, possibly leading to a federal trial for the sex crimes.

Scarola had said earlier this week that the purpose of the second case is to 'invalidate Epstein's non-prosecution agreement.'

'If the case is successful and with the agreement canceled, Epstein's immunity from federal criminal prosecution will be revoked,' he said.

'That means he, plus his named co-conspirators and his unnamed co-conspirators will face the possibility of federal prosecution.

'In a subsequent criminal trial it is very likely that many of the victims will be called to give evidence and heard their stories heard.'

Ephesians 5:11King James Version (KJV)

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "

The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever.

noone222  posted on  2018-12-05   5:59:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: noone222 (#1)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/uc-berkeley-settles-landmark-free-speech-lawsuit-will-pay-70-000-to-conservative-group

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2018-12-06   17:22:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Horse (#2)

I read that they received a "settlement" ... but I hadn't heard that the victims were silenced.

Ephesians 5:11King James Version (KJV)

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "

The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever.

noone222  posted on  2018-12-06   18:03:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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