Judge hears motions on GOP eavesdropping suit

[Judi Lynn]

Judge hears motions on GOP eavesdropping suit


By Bob Gibson / Daily Progress staff writer
September 23, 2005

RICHMOND - A federal judge is set to decide this fall whether the Republican Party of Virginia’s lawsuit against its former insurance company should go to trial or be dismissed.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Dohnal heard arguments Thursday on a motion that the GOP’s lawsuit should be tossed out as groundless. Dohnal is expected to rule within weeks on motions for summary judgment from both sides in the lawsuit that an attorney for the insurance company called frivolous.

The GOP contends that the Union Insurance Co. of Lincoln, Neb., breached its contract by not covering the $750,000 the state party paid last December to 33 Virginia Democrats who sued over eavesdropping by a pair of top Republican officials on Democratic conference calls discussing redistricting.
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“Everything they did was for the benefit of the RPV,” Spencer said. “The chairman of the Republican Party is as close to a Russian Czar as you can get” in terms of power at the top of the organization, he argued. “Matricardi was the executive director of the . He was not somebody who worked in a phone bank.”
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[Demit]

1. I love how the GOP is stiffing their own lawyers in the meantime.

Not paying their fees for arguing the original case, and expecting the insurer to pay those too, in addition to covering them for its own illegal acts. God, they're slime.

[Justice]

2. and they publicize the poor woman burned by hot coffee, yet

where is the national outrage over this frivilous law suit?