Mike Irwin
Staff
"They made no effort to comply with the terms of the agreement and publicly stated that they consider it null and void. Short of burning the agreement and spitting on the ashes in the public square, I don't see how you can get any more "disavowed"."
Well, I guess they couldn't do anything more... Except pursuing the matter through official, legal processes...
Not by going Nanny Boo Boo, Not Gonna Listen To You!
How successful do you think you (or anyone else would be) if you tried that approach?
Think it has any legal standing? Any merit (other than to sucker in people who don't know any better)?
Yeah.
"Even if the agreement was legally binding to subsequent owners of S&W (it's changed owners at least twice that I know of since 2000), it is unlikely that the current administration or any subsequent one could enforce it due to the statute of limitations (S&W's failure to comply would have to be considered breach of contract). I believe, and the members who are lawyers can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, that the statute of limitations for a civil suit in federal court is five years."
I may be wrong about this (I don't think that I am), but in as much as the agreement was entered into as a court order with no finite end date defined, I'm not so sure that a statute of limitations applies.
If that is the case, which I believe it to be, the agreement remains dormant. Not dead.
Well, I guess they couldn't do anything more... Except pursuing the matter through official, legal processes...
Not by going Nanny Boo Boo, Not Gonna Listen To You!
How successful do you think you (or anyone else would be) if you tried that approach?
Think it has any legal standing? Any merit (other than to sucker in people who don't know any better)?
Yeah.
"Even if the agreement was legally binding to subsequent owners of S&W (it's changed owners at least twice that I know of since 2000), it is unlikely that the current administration or any subsequent one could enforce it due to the statute of limitations (S&W's failure to comply would have to be considered breach of contract). I believe, and the members who are lawyers can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, that the statute of limitations for a civil suit in federal court is five years."
I may be wrong about this (I don't think that I am), but in as much as the agreement was entered into as a court order with no finite end date defined, I'm not so sure that a statute of limitations applies.
If that is the case, which I believe it to be, the agreement remains dormant. Not dead.