Monday, April 16, 2012

Conservatives ask court to toss legal challenge to election result

How does this work? Simple -- under the Federal Court Rules unless a claim is drafted so as to state a cause of action within the Court's jurisdiction the Court can (and should) strike out the claim. This has nothing to do with the evidence or the facts -- it is merely a matter of whether the pleadings properly set out something the Court could award judgment for:

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OTTAWA—Winning federal Conservative MPs will ask a judge to toss out a court challenge of last spring's election result in seven ridings where the Council of Canadians says vote suppression was at work.

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