Taxpayers Foot the Bill
I can’t help but wonder how difficult it must be to be Tim Grendell right now. After publishing a four-page article in the Geauga County Bar Association’s “Ipso Jure” — the other writers had one-page articles which reminds me of a joke about how high you can pile stuff — just a few days earlier in an attempt to support his case against Nancy McArthur, he finds himself not only dismissing that case but having to do so publicly.
I have to wonder how difficult that was when even the general public could see his folly and he could not.
I did read the “Ipso Jure” article and the related references (yeah, I’m geeky like that) and it made one thing clear: Tim was not working off of established law but among other writings most notably those of an attorney’s white paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation titled “Contempt: The Untapped Power of Juvenile Court.”
Sounds like its right up Grendell’s power hungry alley doesn’t it?
Tim cites a section on page 207 of the paper as supporting his claim that courts can order nonparties to a juvenile case to court. What he overlooks it seems is the very first sentence in the section which states, “Courts can only hold parties in contempt who know about an order.”
In layman’s terms, that means judges cannot just snatch people up off the street if they have no bearing on a case and do not know of an existing order from the court like Tim tried to do.
It has something to do with the First Amendment and free speech. You would think Tim’s friends in the tea party like Ms. Laurie would have given him a copy since they are so in tune with it.
So, in the end, the taxpayers foot the bill for yet another useless exercise for the judge. Just think, only five more years of this nonsense.
If you are feeling down Tim don’t worry; I hear Skip will buy you a cup of coffee and explain it all to you.
Rob Allen
Claridon Township