Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

Thanatos wrote:
> In article <HcWdna6MotpGZ3LanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>> Last Friday, Wagner and another critic of the LHC's safety measures,
>>> Luis Sancho, filed a lawsuit in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. The suit
>>> calls on the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science
>>> Foundation and CERN to ease up on their LHC preparations for several
>>> months while the collider's safety was re*****sed.
> 
> What jurisdiction does a U.S. federal court have over a scientific 
> project in Switzerland?


Fermi Labs, one of the partners, is based out of the University of 
Illinois at Chicago.
Thus granting US courts rights to try the case.

And why did the mouth-breathing tin-foil hat wearers bring the case in 
the US?

Well, that should be patently obvious:  the Swiss Courts would have 
tossed the suit and
charged them a fee for wasting the courts time
(or laughed themselves silly bumping it up to the EU courts in Brussles 
since the
physical space for the supercollider apparently straddles the 
Swiss/Italian border).

And the Italians would have tied the case up in knots for decades just 
to watch them squirm.

Only in the US is any sitting judge stupid enough to let this case go 
forward.


*sigh*

--Leigh