SLRC UPDATE:
22 April 2003

SPLC Trashes SLRC (Again...)

Compatriots,

I'm mad!. The Southern Poverty Law Center trashes the SLRC in its latest intelligence update for among other things, our removal as counsel of record from the Texas Supreme Court Plaque case. Members of the Texas Division helped to pull on the rope. We have done all we could to be a good sport about our removal from the case and not do anything that could jeopardize the Division's handling of the case. But rumor compounded upon rumor seems to be spreading through Texas Division about our removal from the Plaques case and that cannot go without a response. Much of this poisoned gossip was spread to injure our relationship with the Texas Division UDC.

Here is what Morris Dees had to say:

Texas SCV official Jerry Nelson wrote that the council also rejected keeping Lyons on as co-counsel because “such an appointment was not in the division's best interest.” Marshall Davis, public information officer for the Texas SCV, clarified that statement: “The best I can say is the division was not pleased with his progress as we were proceeding on this case. I think the division officers felt that it was not moving quickly enough for them.”

Questions?

• How many depositions has the new attorney taken since the SLRC was removed from the case?
• Has Al Gonzales deposition been taken?
• Has Clay Johnson's deposition been taken?
• Has Chief Justice Tom Phillips deposition been taken?
• It's been 7 months since the SLRC was removed.  Is the Division cutting a deal or going to trial? My sources seem to indicate the former, not the latter.

I called the clerk's office this afternoon for the 53rd Judicial District Court. The only thing that has been filed since the SLRC was removed is a Plaintiffs Motion to the insufficiency of the Defendants responses to Plaintiff's request for Admissions (so a request for admissions was filed) and a "supplement" to the 3rd Amended Complaint filed by the SLRC!

Everywhere I marched in Texas, rank and file SCV members told me how upset they were that the SLRC was removed from the case and wanted to know: WHY?  I did not know what to tell them.

Everything may be well in hand, but it is to you the members of the Division to make sure that this lawsuit is proceeding in the direction you want it to go.

Sincerely,

H.K. Edgerton

Related Document:  3rd Amended Petition for Declaratory Relief
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