{"id":11617,"date":"2014-01-08T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2014-01-08T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:26:41","slug":"juggalo-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11617","title":{"rendered":"Juggalo law."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/09\/arts\/music\/insane-clown-posse-defends-fans-with-f-bi-lawsuit.html?_r=0\">The Michigan rap group Insane Clown Posse filed suit on Wednesday against the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying that the United States government had made the \u201cunwarranted and unlawful decision\u201d to classify fans of the band as criminal gang members, leading to their harassment by law enforcement and causing them \u201csignificant harm.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This by way of a rather cryptic tweet from Popehat:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Fucking Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, how do they work?  <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/IoWI22Dsgw\">http:\/\/t.co\/IoWI22Dsgw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Popehat (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/statuses\/420956381420593152\">January 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, Mom.)<\/p>\n<p>Not being a lawyer, I&#8217;m not sure what Popehat is referring to here as far as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, though I&#8217;m hoping it wasn&#8217;t just a play on ICP&#8217;s most famous quote and we&#8217;ll get a fuller explanation later. As a guess, I want to say that Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope may not have standing to sue, as it isn&#8217;t clear to me that they have actually been damaged directly by the government&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan rap group Insane Clown Posse filed suit on Wednesday against the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying that the United States government had made the \u201cunwarranted and unlawful decision\u201d to classify fans of the band as criminal gang members, leading to their harassment by law enforcement and causing them \u201csignificant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,112,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-ianal","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}