From: "Jeff Shultz" 

So it's just typical stuffed up press releases?

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Jeff Shultz
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"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.138e23f685bae5c59898e6{at}news.barkto.com...
39240e40$1{at}w3.nls.net>, si{at}wvi.com says...
http://www.aclu.org/news/pressind.html certainly has the
phrase
> > "filed a lawsuit" in it once or twice
>
> That's bad phrasing on their part. The ACLU, and its components (like the
> Voting Rights Project) don't have standing to file a civil rights action.
They
> may, at the request of an individual or a group, file the papers on behalf
of
> the parties harmed.
>
>
> ... now, if you want to get specific,
> > the example I'm looking at says, "The Voting Rights Project of the
American
> > Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit..."  That isn't even one
degree
> > of separation in my book.
>
> Someone must claim to be harmed. The "Voting Rights Project"
itself could
not
> be harmed by discriminatory election methodologies.
>
> Put another way, an attorney cannot file a lawsuit just because she
doesn't
> like something, unless she is the one who is harmed.
>

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