UFO RESOURCE CENTER
CITIZENS AGAINST UFO SECRECY
Delivered-To: uforc@wa.freei.net PARANORML NEWs NETWORK (P3N) SPECIAL REPORT
Virginia Governor Submits the CAUS Federal Lawsuit to Virginia Court
(P3N) 8-10-00 Sedona, Arizona
On Aug. 8, 2000, only a day after her receipt of the petitioners' Reply
Brief to the Defendant's Demurrer, Gov. Gilmore's counsel sent a 2-page
letter to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria, VA. P3N
has obtained a copy of that letter:
Dear Mr. Semonian:
This office filed a demurrer and memorandum in support thereof on behalf
of the Respondent, the Honorable James S. Gilmore, III, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia ("Governor"), in this case on June 30, 2000.
Enclosed are pleadings and a final order from the United States District
Court for the District of Arizona in the case of Citizens Against UFO
Secrecy, Inc. v. United States, et al.(1), which the Governor asks the
Court to consider in its determination of this case.
In September 1999, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, Inc.(CAUS)(2) filed a
complaint in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona seeking mandamus relief
against the United States, Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United
States, William Cohen, Secretary of Defense of the United States, the
State of Arizona, and Jane Dee Hull, Governor of Arizona. In the
Complaint, CAUS requested a court order requiring certain actions by the
defendants(3), as well as the court's continuing jurisdiction to enforce
and modify its order. See the enclosed Complaint for Declaratory and
Mandate Relief and Injunction. Like the petitioners before this Court,
CAUS alleged that the individual defendants failed to respond to its
letters. Id. at paragraphs 20,21,22,25 and 26. The CAUS Complaint
sought relief similar to that sought by the petitioners here,
particularly as to the continuing review by this Court of decisions of
the Executive branch.
The federal defendants filed the enclosed memorandum in support of their
motion to dismiss(4), which relies on the same legal arguments asserted
by the Governor in this case. On June 26, 2000, the District Court
granted all motions to dismiss with prejudice and entered the enclosed
order.
Similarly, in this case the petitioners seek a writ of mandamus against
the Governor, ordering him to exercise his discretion in a manner
acceptable to them. The petitioners also seek "current and future
review and remedy" by the Court, amounting to this Court's continuing
oversight over the Governor's policy decisions. Thus the petitioners,
like CAUS in Arizona, ask the Court to make discretionary policy and
political decisions constitutionally vested in other branches of the
government, and to indefinitely oversee those decisions.
Therefore, the Governor renews his demurrer and asks the Court to
consider the enclosed documents from Arizona.
Respectfully submitted,
Catherine Crooks Hill
Assistant Attorney General
FOOTNOTES:
(1) All of the enclosed documents were downloaded from the website of
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, Inc.(CAUS), located at
http://www.caus.org, except for the final order, which this office
obtained directly from the Office of the United States Attorney for the
District of Arizona.
(2) Larry Bryant, a petitioner in the case pending before this Court,
is a member of and a consultant to CAUS. See Petition, paragraph 1.
(3) Specifically, CAUS sought to compel the United States "to formulate
a plan to protect the residents of Arizona against said clandestine
invasion," to have the court retain "continuing jurisdiction over this
case to enforce or modify the relief requested," and attorneys fees and
costs.
(4) The Governor and the State of Arizona moved to dismiss based upon
Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds.
When P3N reached Bryant at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, the UFO activist
asked: "Why is Gilmore going to such lengths to have this petition quashed
even as it takes on a life of its own in the Court of Public Opinion?"
Bryant further stated: How convenient for him to select this
inapplicable ruling of a FEDERAL court from the caus.org site while
(conspicuously) ignoring the site's publication of ample, affidavit-supported
evidence of the invasion. All the more reason, your honor, to convene the
sought-for grand jury to investigate and report upon the Virginia role in the
UFO/E.T.-invasion coverup."
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CAUS in COURT: CAUS v. Department of Defense - Appeal
On Tuesday, August 8th, I participated in a telephonic settlement assessment
conference with Assistant US Attorney Richard Patrick and US Court of Appeals
Mediator Lou Ross, in an attempt to resolve any of the issues which are the
subject of the CAUS appeal. Mr. Ross was very sympathetic to my arguments and
even broadened the parameters of the conference to include the pending CAUS
FOIA request for all documents the DoD surfaced as a result of the previous
CAUS lawsuit. If you remember, the DoD gratuitously added search terms such
as "flying saucer," "UFO," "alien craft," and "spacecraft" and could have
surfaced documents that had nothing to do with triangular aerial objects. Mr.
Ross asked Mr. Patrick to expedite the release of these documents. CAUS
believes these documents, as well as the administrative case files, might
shed some light on the reasonableness of the DoD's search. A second
telephonic conference is scheduled for August 22nd.
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