UPDATE On That Stupid Fitton Strike Suit, Against Reparations, Here In My Home Town...

Yesterday, whilst we were busy doing other things, the City added to the weight of authority that holds Tom Fitton and his goofy solicited "plaintiffs" should be bounced for lack of having any concrete injury -- called "lack of standing".

The City pointed the able USDC Judge in Chicago to a decision in the Fourth Circuit, earlier in the month called Hierholzer, and here is what the City offered about that decision:

. . .In Hierholzer, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal for lack of standing a claim that the Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) Business Development Program unlawfully discriminated against the plaintiffs on the basis of race.

The district court’s dismissal was based, in part, on the plaintiffs’ inability to plead facts sufficient to show that they were “able and ready” to participate in the program but for the program’s racial consideration because they could not meet the program’s race neutral requirements. Id. at *8. The Fourth Circuit affirmed. Noting that because “‘the party invoking federal jurisdiction[]bears the burden of establishing’ standing. . . [plaintiffs] were required to plead facts to support that they would be eligible for the program” by meeting both its requirements that considered race and those that were race neutral. Id. “Because [plaintiffs] failed to do so, [plaintiffs] have not demonstrated that they suffered an injury in fact. . . .”

The chuckleheads who brought this silly claim will (despite Tangerine's endlessly hateful burping) be dumped out on their ears. Onward, grinning. . . [people who don't own property, pay taxes locally, or. . . live here, cannot dictate how we choose, via our own city council decisions, to spend our own real estate tax money -- in repair for wrongs previously done. Full stop.]

Now, enjoy "He Lives In You":



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