Another major legal set back for the USCF
ORDER
On this day the Court considered Paul Truong’s Motion to Dismiss Under Rule 12(b)(1), or in the Alternative, Rule 14(a)(4) Motion to Strike Third-Party Plaintiff United States of America Chess Federation, Inc.’s Third-Party Complaint and Brief in Support (Doc. #136), filed May 5, 2009. The Court further considered Defendant United States of America Chess Federation, Inc.’s Response (Doc. #143), filed on May 22, 2009.
...Paul Truong’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED and USCF’s third-party claims against Paul Truong are DISMISSED without prejudice.
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Labels: Bill Goichberg, Bill Hall, Dirty Politics, Jim Berry, USCF
posted by Chess Daily News @ 6/09/2009 12:50:00 PM
1 Comments:
At Sunday, January 24, 2010 6:00:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Money talks, all the BS spins walk. USCF / their insurance carrier paid Polgar / Truong $39,000 + the USCF spent $750,000 + their insurance carrier spent $$$$$. The USCF lost. No spin will ever change this. Goichberg should be held accountable for the scandal he created.
WE NEED MORE SUCH COMPLETE VICTORIES
--What weasel told you it was a half of a million bucks? If true we should kick them all out. They have engaged in an awful mismanagement of the Federation's scarce resources. This is the biggest scandal since Hankin dropped his drawers in an executive session. They deserve no better than to be censored, branded, screwed blue, and tattooed. I'm with Larry: Let's crucify the weasels. Of course that is assuming it was anywhere near $500,000.> -- Stan Booz ("none")
"Bill Hall, the organization’s executive director, said the federation, which has annual revenues of about $3 million, had spent nearly $750,000 in legal fees on the cases."
If the USCF has won a "complete victory" then what could be more healthy for the Federation? Why, more complete victories. At about $600,000 a crack. We need to begin a discussion about how to secure more of these complete victories.
Any ideas? Certainly, there must be questions for a class action lawsuit over Board members making legal decisions to protect themselves.
Anti-USCF? Not at all. For complete victories, if such they are, can only strengthen the Federation.
Or, perhaps, there was no complete victory at all. That: it was a bloody disaste, as a result of the egotistical stubbornness of, first and foremost, Bill Goichberg.
There need to be new EB elections following the resignation of the Board.
Certainly, the USCF must research the possibility of seeking legal damages from Board members who okayed expenditure of funds and who were also protecting themselves.
I believe some members will pursue further legal action. Every Board conversation and decision needs to be explained in full in the broad daylight of sunshine and publicity. We need to see the correspondence of Board members when attending to any and all Federation business, their emails among themselves when discussing any Federation related business of any kind and satisfy ourselves that these people were not participants in criminal activities using USCF resources and funds to promote said activities.
We know that the board will not cooperate. Therefore, it is vital to begin discussions about how to secure that cooperation.
Yours, Larry Parr
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