Ralph Nader Wins MasterCard Suit

love him or hate him, we can all agree that this is a good thing
(from press release)

*Ralph Nader Wins MasterCard Suit*

One campaign advertisement to raise the issue that Ralph Nader should be
allowed into the Commission on Presidential Debates' televised
presidential debates:  

Heavy dose of creativity.    

One MasterCard lawsuit filed in August of 2000, when the Nader campaign
refused to relinquish its First Amendment rights to political speech:

Three years of litigation.

A decision from the Federal Court granting in its entirety Nader's
Motion for Summary Judgment against MasterCard's lawsuit:

Priceless.

The real frivolous lawsuits are corporations suing each other over the
most trivial commercial matters and suing citizens over free speech issues.

"The MasterCard conglomerate has enough economic problems of its own to
worry about without engaging in frivolous lawsuits against the freedom
of political speech."  Nader said.  "Justice was done. There are some
things money can't buy."

Ralph Nader acknowledges the award-winning Bill Hillsman, Scott Burns,
and North Woods Advertising for their creative talents, and Anthony
Fletcher, Esq. and Stacy Grossman, Esq. of Fish & Richardson, and Mark
Lemley, Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California at Berkeley, for their outstanding representation.

Looks like all the candidates from both sides are using the "Priceless" theme for their campaign ads.

Thanks to Nader the humorless world of the big money power just sat on a whoopee cushion.

This was an important battle to win - the legal power to use the language and symbols of our overdogs in parody is no small part of what keeps us free. The other way lie fundamentalism and obedience.

This is where Ralph is at his best. Defending and winning lawsuits against corrupt corporate practices.

thanks Ralph.

Sonia

Good on Ralph.