March 1, 2006

ALL THE EMOTION ON THEIR SIDE, BUT NONE OF THE LAW:

Federal judge nixes NJ lawsuit against ports deal (JANET FRANKSTON, 3/01/06, Associated Press)

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against a request by New Jersey to order an investigation into a United Arab Emirates-based company's takeover of some U.S. port operations, including Port Newark.

U.S. District Judge Jose Linares also said the state will not be privy to documents the company gave to a federal committee reviewing the deal. Linares said the state "needs to show an immediate need for those documents."


Howard Dean has now seized on the protectionist opportunity the Islamophobes handed him, calling for ports to only be overseen by American companies.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 1, 2006 1:37 PM
Comments

And by "American companies" my understanding is that he means Halliburton. Tee-hee.

Posted by: b at March 1, 2006 1:57 PM

You really can't make up this stuff.

Posted by: erp at March 1, 2006 6:31 PM

He might mean Ben & Jerry's, except they are owned by....the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.

Posted by: ratbert at March 1, 2006 10:27 PM
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