---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:45:00 -0800 From: Nora Callahan To: november-l@november.org Subject: Nov-L: Narco News wins big! http://www.narconews.com/ November Coalition members: For about a year we have been covering this story in the Razor Wire and periodic updates on this elist. Nora Subj: Ross Regnart: Al Giordano won his case against Bank in Mexico now owned by Citibank Date: 12/8/2001 11:00:16 PM Eastern Standard Time From: lobo@renonevada.net (Ross) To: Chswn@cs.com December 8, 2001 A Narco News Global Celebration! Narco News Beats Banamex! -- NY State Supreme Court Dismisses All Charges against Mario Men�ndez, Al Giordano and The Narco News Bulletin -- "Narco-Bankers" Failed Despite Citigroup Merger -- Judge Paula Omansky: Free Speech Champion -- "Narco-Lobbyists" at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld humilliated; McLish filed an insufficient complaint -- NO Jurisdiction over authentic journalist Mario Men�ndez, publisher and editor of the daily Por Esto! in Mexico -- Insufficient Complaint vs. Narco News and Al Giordano -- The Drug War Went on Trial And The Drug War Lost Stay Tuned for a Full Report: http://www.narconews.com/ Narco News offers its profound thanks to our readers for your support throughout this expensive attack on our free speech and press freedom. We thank the many people who donated large and small contributions to the "Drug War on Trial" defense fund to defeat the billionaires' abuse of the legal system to attack cyber-liberties. We extend our congratulations and gratitude to Mario Men�ndez in M�rida, Yucatan, for his heroic work exposing corrupt white-collar drug traffickers and how the US DEA and other government agencies protect them. Mario started a movement. And this movement, to expose the real powers behind the corrupt war on drugs, and to end the drug prohibition from which they profit, will continue, and will triumph. We have not yet begun to fight! We offer our most profound thanks to Tom Lesser, counsel to Narco News, and everyone at Lesser, Newman, Souweine and Nasser of Northampton, Massachusetts, particularly Libby Spencer and Karen Thatcher, who beat the biggest lawyer-lobbyist firm in the world. Tom Lesser pitched a no-hitter against the Akin Gumpsters, the overpaid incompetents who struck out at every time at bat against the great civil liberties and free-speech barrister from Massachusetts. It is fair to say that without Tom Lesser, this immense victory would not have been possible. We also thank the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who valiently filed an amicus brief on behalf of The Narco News Bulletin when other "press freedom" institutions ran from the fight. We also thank Marty Garbus, David Atlas and the team who defended Mario Menendez so ably, whose teamwork and experience made this defense unstoppable against the biggest of foes. And we thank all the many colleagues in authentic journalism who wrote about, spoke about, reported on and investigated this case, and in every single instance concluded what NY State Supreme Court Justice Paula Omansky has just ruled: This billionaire's lawsuit should never have been brought. We are sure we have more people to thank, but frankly, it is Saturday Night in a country called Am�rica, a night to celebrate. It's a world dance party, from Cochabamba to your town. But be assured: We are not done with the billionaire Plaintiffs in this case. They abused the court system and used their overpowering wealth to try to overpower us. And they failed. We will consult with our attorneys and co-defendant, and announce the next step in our legal strategy shortly. The aggressors will not be let off the hook. We have anticipated this victory, and now phase two begins. To repeat: ALL three charges against all three defendants in the case of Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex) vs. Mario Men�ndez, Al Giordano and Narco News have been dismissed by the New York State Supreme Court. Impacting...

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