wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:49:26 -0500, Jessie Carlson
wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:

It sounds like a jurisdictional issue to me. I doubt the local court
has the right to countermand the FAA's decisions.

You don't understand. This is Massachusetts. Courts in this very Liberal state
can do whatever they want, and they aren't accountable to anybody or anything.

If that is the line the defense attorney is spewing, it's time to find
another more competent one.

Not to worry, no civil defense attorney would dare utter a description of the
Massachusetts process when sober.

Yes, eventually a federal district court or appellate court might hear the case.
But that will be way down the line, after much direct and collateral economic
damage is done. And that's what the plaintiffs want.

If a suit is filed in a court that lacks jurisdiction solely to harass
the plaintiffs, it could be viewed as abuse of process. The law cuts
both ways.

That would be true only if the state court agrees. But this court is a Massachusetts
court, so it does not. At least until and if a federal court agrees to hear the
case.