Bush Library/Lawsuit

[SMU Football Blog]

What does International Shoe have to say about this?

[jtstang]

BTW I cited Ponyfans.com for my Yearly Continuing Legal Education Self Study Hours on my Yearly Report to the Texas Bar. Should I be concerned? Hope I don't end up like Vodrica and have my license pulled.

Only if I get the requisite credit for teaching this course.

[OC Mustang]

I swore off the board a whole week, well, a little less than a week, but this deserves a reply/question.

Let's say that Buckmeyer grants SMU's MSJ. What are Vodicka's alternatives at that point, and what is his strongest tactic after that?
What do you think his chances are using that strongest tactic?

Thx.

And Go Mustangs on Saturday vs. Tulsa. Won't be able to make it (is killing me) b/c on the road to Southern California for Turkey Day.

Sunny & 70 degrees all week.

Nice.

[Stallion]

Summary Judgment are based on affidavits and supporting evidence attached thereto. I would be very difficult the speculate without looking at the evidence presented.

[jtstang]

Stallion is right. But one thing that will not likely happen is for the entirety of the case to be disposed of on summary judgment. Just too many parties and issues. If only a portion of the claims are addressed, and SMU prevails, it should consider seeking a severance of its summary judgment order into a separate case so that it can become a final judgment. After that Vodicka and/or his cronies would be facing an appeal, which is a dicey and expensive process.

[SMU Football Blog]

Let's be honest, neither party cares about a money judgment. For Vodicka, this is about keeping those condos up as long as possible and forcing SMU to cave in or risk losing the library. All SMU wants on MSJ is a nice little order allowing them to tear those b!tches down. They get that and it is game-set-match and Vodicka knows it. SMU gets that order and immediately shifts from a hurry-up offense to a prevent defense and tries to drag this out and make Vodicka give in.

The idea that Buckmeyer is requiring all the briefing to be during the week of Thanksgiving is priceless.

[jtstang]

Let's be honest, neither party cares about a money judgment. For Vodicka, this is about keeping those condos up as long as possible and forcing SMU to cave in or risk losing the library. All SMU wants on MSJ is a nice little order allowing them to tear those b!tches down. They get that and it is game-set-match and Vodicka knows it. SMU gets that order and immediately shifts from a hurry-up offense to a prevent defense and tries to drag this out and make Vodicka give in.

I agree but you cannot do that without making your judgment final, can you? An interlocutory judgment does SMU no good in the tear those [deleted] down strategy, it would seem.

[SMU Football Blog]

I was thinking more substantively than procedurally.

[SMU Football Blog]

In case anyone reading this thread is wondering, SMU filed its brief yesterday. Vodicka and others' response is due tomorrow; SMU can reply by Friday. Then, the hearing is Monday.

[SMU Football Blog]

The Vodicka camp filed their response to SMU's MSJ; SMU's reply is due tomorrow. Hearing on Monday.

I am borderline surprised that no emergency motions were filed to stop the hearing on Wednesday.

[SMU Football Blog]

This is interesting. The only party that filed a response to SMU's Motion for Summary Judgment was Robert Tafel, the intervenor. Tafel is the other guy that owns a condo that is suing. Tafel is represented by larry Friedman, a real lawyer. An a-hole, but still a real lawyer. Vodicka did not file a response or join in Tafel's response.

Actually, Vodicka has not appeared in the removed case in any way, except to file a jury demand. I find that weird.

[RE Tycoon]

http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html ... lenews_wsj

Don't have access, but the WSJ has another article on the competition for the library.

[Ponymon]

http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116442787298332598.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj

Don't have access, but the WSJ has another article on the competition for the library.

It made the front page of the Weekend Edition as one of the four main stories. SMU is the betting favorite. Don Evans is leading the effort for Bush in vetting and shaping the library. The library will cost more than $200 million with the funds being raised from private contributors. In the article, Lauar Bush is said to hve indicated that the couple will have a post-presidential home in Dallas and telling the Houston Chronicle that SMU is her sentimental favorite. It says that "SMU is among Texas most prestigious colleges."The Vodicka lawsuit is also mentioned, which has given an opening to the University of Dallas. Laura Miller appears to be supporting U of D saying that the proposed SMU site is cramped and the campus is a traffic nightmare. (I'm glad she is NOT the mayor of Farmers Branch!) Baylor is also mentioned, of course.

[MrMustang1965]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/27/bush-library/

The New York Daily News reports, “President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign — an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.”

Bush is attempting to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Bush fund-raisers hope to get approximately $250 million from what they call “megadonations” of $10 million to $20 million each. Among the candidates for “megadonations,” whose names will remain anonymous:

Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry as potential “mega” donors and are pressing for a formal site announcement - now expected early in the new year.

Bush allies feel they need enormous funds to shape how history views Bush’s legacy. A Bush insider said, “The more [money] you have, the more influence [on history] you can exert.” Much of the money will be used to build a “legacy-polishing” institute:

The legacy-polishing centerpiece is an institute, which several Bush insiders called the Institute for Democracy. Patterned after Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Bush’s institute will hire conservative scholars and “give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President’s policies,” one Bush insider said.

Bush had earlier indicated his desire to create a think tank “to talk about freedom and liberty and the DeTocqueville model of what [French political philosopher Alexis] DeTocqueville saw in America.”

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The full Daily News story:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/ ... 9492c.html

"The half-billion target is double what Bush raised for his 2004 reelection and dwarfs the funding of other presidential libraries. But Bush partisans are determined to have a massive pile of endowment cash to spread the gospel of a presidency that for now gets poor marks from many scholars and a majority of Americans."

Whitewashing history is not cheap, apparently.