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SATURDAY
MAY 27 2000 Reno dodges
Elian lawsuit papers Judicial Watch: Evading process server in $100 million case illegal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Jon E. Dougherty
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Attorneys for Judicial Watch have charged
Attorney General Janet Reno with illegally dodging the service of court papers
involving a lawsuit against the Justice Department by Donato Dalrymple -- the
man who plucked Elian Gonzalez from the sea -- and other bystanders present when
INS officials raided the boy's Miami relatives' home last month.
According to the Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group, one of its process servers attended an event sponsored by the Florida Bar Association at which Reno was scheduled to speak on Thursday. The idea, said Judicial Watch, was to "serve Ms. Reno without fanfare as she entered the Sheraton Hotel." However, before the server could present the
court papers to Reno, he was prevented from doing so by Miami and Bal Harbour
police officers on the scene. Officers told the process server that Reno's FBI
detail would not permit service of process.
When the server notified high-ranking police
officials that the obstruction was a violation of law, one police official told
the server he was acting under instructions from Reno's FBI detail.
"It is incredible that the attorney general of
the United States would effectively run from an authorized process server trying
to serve her with a complaint over her violation of the civil rights of Donato
Dalrymple and innocent bystanders," said Judicial Watch's chairman and general
counsel, Larry Klayman.
Before the server could present the court papers
to Reno, he was prevented from doing so by Miami and Bal Harbour police officers
on the scene. Officers told the process server that Reno's FBI detail would not
permit service of process.
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs,
resists, or opposes any ... person duly authorized, in serving, or attempting to
serve or execute, any legal or judicial writ or process ... shall be fined ...
or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
-- 18 United States Code, Sect. 1501, which
states:
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs,
resists, or opposes any officer of the United States, or other person duly
authorized, in serving, or attempting to serve or execute, any legal or judicial
writ or process of any court of the United States, or United States commissioner
... shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Judicial Watch said the law also prohibits process servers from being assaulted after the server has identified himself or herself to persons being served papers. "Ms. Reno, you can run, but you cannot hide from
the truth or from the law," Klayman said. "In your own words, we will follow the
evidence wherever it leads -- and it leads directly to you."
The Justice Department has not published
reaction or comment about the attempt to serve Reno. Officials there were out of the office late Friday before press time and could not be reached for comment. The legal group's lawsuit also includes Deputy
Attorney General Eric Holder and INS Commissioner Doris Meissner. The Dalrymple
suit seeks $100 million in damages for the pre-dawn armed raid April 22 and
alleges the federal government violated his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights
when the raid occurred.
Dalrymple was holding Elian when Immigration and
Naturalization Service SWAT team members took the boy from him at gunpoint.
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