-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199712291529.JAA01672@einstein.ssz.com>, on 12/29/97 at 10:29 AM, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> said:
ARTICLE III.
Section 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; [deleted text] between Citizens of different States; [deleted text]
Clearly my suing say the govenor and legislature of each of the 50 states qualifies as a case involving citizens of different states and therefore there is clearly a right to sue multiple states at the federal level and falls under the responsibility of the Supreme Court.
Good point execpt are we talking of suing a States' governemnt for damages or are we talking of suing individules, who happen to be part of a State's government, for damages? I think that it is universal that one is precluded from suing a memeber of government for carying out the duties of office (ie: you can't sue the Governor of Texas for passing a law you don't like while you can sue the govenor if hits your car going down the road). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNKfFc49Co1n+aLhhAQEtCwP9GsaMy4B0MqSTCBuXCfukoLw+AZ5cWW4V kEdWBiIO0iZAID8ud+uJr8K1XgsfEbfqwJ6rQgQChs4hunzD2NrQCb4hFIAO8I4o m6iF9xzRB+sQPkYte5CpINAlnVgobcKPzkIpFSaMYOXI7u2prN2IxZqkYNLxiYSs phUTt0hrt0I= =LAhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----