Crowdfunded effort (led by the awesome Cards Against Humanity folks) bought a tract of pristine land in Texas near the Mexican border a few years ago to prevent development (such as a border wall), and to leave it in a natural state.
This year, Space X unilaterally started building on the tract, without anyone's permission, causing irreparable harm to the natural state of the land. Not cool, says the owner.
Hilarity currently en-suing. https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/
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in the hierarchy:
1. Texas property protection
2. U.S. property protection
I'm not an attorney and have no background here, but I can look up this bit of the Texas Penal Code, LOL
Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.42. Deadly Force to Protect Property
A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
...
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
...
@mattblaze My bet is that the complaint will be dismissed (with leave to amend or re-file) due to lack of specificity.
In a normal tresspass-like case there would have been precise lists of the plaintiff's properties and exactly what the defendant did on each one (and each one tied to a cause of action.). All we got here were photos that were not bound to any particular geography and photos of construction, again not tied to any particular properties.
The plaintiffs ought to realize that initiating a legal action requires a lot more detail than playing a card game.
@karlauerbach @mattblaze >> “All we got here were photos that were not bound to any particular geography and photos of construction, again not tied to any particular properties.”
In the media reports about it, sure. I am sure the plaintiffs have other evidence and documentation that you, not being the judge or jury, haven’t been privy to.
@mattblaze * Makes Popcorn *
This shit is going to be Fun.
@mattblaze I read the complaint. Were I on the Space-X side I'd move to dismiss it on the grounds of lack of specificity. And were I the judge I would grant such a motion, but with leave to amend.
The complaint is written more as a press release than an adequate legal document. The complaint ought to contain enough specifics to support the asserted causes of action. But this complaint did not allege any specific acts of Space X on specific CAH lands. Rather than photographs that were not tied to maps of properties. It would have been a lot better to use that space in the complaint to enumerate specific trespasses and abuses by Space-X to specific properties owned by CAH.
@mattblaze While it's great to see someone try to stick it to Musk, let's not forget that Cards Against Humanity is also a racist and sexist dumpster fire.
https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23/21300435/cards-against-humanity-max-temkin-report
In the past few weeks, multiple former Cards Against Humanity employees have shared stories on social media and with Polygon about what they characterize as a racist and sexist company culture that disportionately affected Black employees. Sexual assault allegations against co-founder Max Temkin have re-emerged, too.
ELMO RUINED MY LAND!!!!
This is actually infuriating to me. I already despised SpaceX, but this… wow.
@mattblaze this being the way that I learn about the Holiday Hole is a tragedy…
Glad to see they’ll probably get some legal recourse. Don’t mess with Texas, y’all.
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