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Originally Posted by Chip
Wow, these guys are getting quite aggressive, even wanting to bring to justice the President's commission on the disaster if they don't do their jobs effectively. My question, is "someter a la justicia" suing in this sense as it appears that these are private lawyers and what authority or rights do they have to do this?
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think the process is that the plaint gets submitted to the Attorney General and he decides if the plaint has sufficient merit to be pursued through the legal system. Is that right HB?
The AG is a Government appointee, of course. The commission of enquiry isn't due to report until mid-March so................it wouldn't be possible to 'judge' whether they had done their jobs effectively until after the report is out. Which would be some 7 weeks before Presidential elections. Would the AG dare to find a plaint against the commission
didn't have merit enough to be pursued judicially so near to the elections?
Mind you, if the people who made the decision to open the dam are sued for criminal negligence ahead of the commission reporting, then that would make the second case somewhat moot, except it would be useful to have as a back-up in case the first one failed.