[opendtv] Re: News: DIRECTV Sued Over HDTV Picture Quality

  • From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:50:43 -0400

Craig wrote:

 "Perhaps there could be grounds to sue the government for mandating tuners
for a service that people do not want, and in many cases, does not work at
the site of installation."

There is something called sovereign immunity to legal suit which prevents
suit against a sovereign government by its citizens, save by permission of
the sovereign government.  So there is a formidable problem of legal
standing to bring suit in these circumstances.

Al Limberg

 
 
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