Gun-carrying Lebanon mom files civil-rights lawsuit

[Desertdog]

I hope the pro-gun orgaizations go to bat for her.

Gun-carrying Lebanon mom files civil-rights lawsuit
by BARBARA MILLER, Of The Patriot-News
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/11/civil_rights_lawsuit_filed_by.html



LEBANON -- The Lebanon woman who stirred controversy by openly carrying a handgun to her child's soccer game filed a lawsuit in federal court today claiming that her rights were violated and seeking more than $1 million in damages.

Meleanie Hain's concealed weapons permit was revoked Sept. 20 by Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who maintained she showed poor judgment wearing her gun to her daughter's soccer game Sept. 11. The permit was reinstated Oct. 14 by Lebanon County Judge Robert Eby.

Judge Eby asked her to conceal the gun when she goes to soccer games. but Hain said she planned to continue to display the gun, asserting her right under the Second Amendment.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. Middle District Court on behalf of Hain and her husband, Scott Hain, names DeLeo, his office and Lebanon County. It claims the sheriff's action violated her First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendment rights.

"My client has been harmed more than that court is empowered to adjudicate," said Hain's attorney, Matthew Weisberg, referring to the reinstatement of her permit in county court.

The suit seeks reimbursement of attorneys' fees and costs and lost wages, since Hain's baby-sitting business has suffered, Weisberg said. She also seeks compensation for emotional distress, punitive and statutory damages, and mandatory education for the sheriff's department on Second Amendment issues.

Hain had been carrying the weapon openly for a year, Weisberg said, but no one complained until the sheriff revoked her permit. He added that a sheriff's deputy was one of her clients.

The primary reason Hain carries a gun is for safety, Weisberg said. "She believes she is made safer by openly carrying," he said.

[vaskidmark]

Various folks at various boards have various things to say in support or opposition to her lawsuit.  Perhaps the least unusual are the folks on pro-RKBA and other handgun-focused boards who are piling up the branches in preparation to burn her at the stake.

It's more of a non-news thing as far as I am concerned.  What I'd like to see is her husband join with a loss of consortium claim.

Seriously - nothing to see here folks, move along now.

stay safe.

skidmark

[Perd Hapley]

You know, you might point out which Lebanon we're talking about, here. 

[Desertdog]

You know, you might point out which Lebanon we're talking about, here. 

  OK.

LEBANON, TEXAS (Collin County). Lebanon is west of State Highway 289 three miles southeast of Frisco and fifteen miles north of Dallas in southwestern Collin County. The area was originally called Shahan's Prairie, after a rancher who settled there in the 1840s. Although the exact date of the change is not known, the name became Lebanon in honor of the native city of Danson Clark and other settlers who moved from Lebanon, Tennessee, around 1845. For the first fifty years of its history Lebanon was a promising farming community. A post office opened in 1860. By the 1890s the village had an estimated population of 450, three churches, and twenty businesses. In 1902, however, the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway bypassed Lebanon. Within three years most of the residents had moved to Frisco in order to be near the railroad. In 1905 the post office was closed, and by the 1940s the population had decreased to fifty. The number of residents has not increased since that time.

[MicroBalrog]

I hope she wins and gets a lot of money from the settlement.

[zahc]

Wait...she was open carrying in TX? Since when is that legal? I had assumed it was an Ohio-esque case of persecution despite legality. Did she really get away with open carrying in TX for a year?

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Are y'all sure it isn't Lebanon, Pennsylvania?

[Regolith]

Are y'all sure it isn't Lebanon, Pennsylvania?

That would explain why the website is called "PennLive.com."    :rolleyes:





But yeah, a mention of state might help.  Off the top of my head, i know there's a Lebanon in Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania, and the Middle East.

Wikipedia lists at least 22 different towns called Lebanon in the US:

    * Lebanon, Connecticut
    * Lebanon, Illinois
    * Lebanon, Indiana
    * Lebanon, Kansas
    * Lebanon, Kentucky
    * Lebanon, Maine
    * Lebanon, Missouri
    * Lebanon, Nebraska
    * Lebanon, New Hampshire
    * Lebanon, New Jersey
    * Lebanon Township, New Jersey
    * Lebanon, New York
    * Lebanon, Ohio
    * Lebanon, Oklahoma
    * Lebanon, Oregon
    * Lebanon, Pennsylvania
    * Lebanon, South Dakota
    * Lebanon, Tennessee
    * Lebanon, Texas
    * Lebanon, Virginia
    * Lebanon, Wisconsin
    * Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

The article is credited to The Patriot-News, which is a local rag from the Harrisburg, PA area.  Lebanon, PA is only a about 25 miles away.

[K Frame]

The Patriot was the local newspaper when I was growing up.

They never could figure out if they were hostile to guns, or just cool to guns.

[Desertdog]

OK, Ok, I admit I was as wrong as sin when I put this story in Texas, it is in PA.

[seeker_two]

Good for her.....the best way to get the gov'ts attention is to hit them in the pocketbook and in the press...

OK, Ok, I admit I was as wrong as sin when I put this story in Texas, it is in PA.

I hope you have to pay her, too....   

[Desertdog]

I hope you have to pay her, too....

Hey, I'm all for her.  In fact I want all states to be like VT and AK.

[Eleven Mike]

You mean...cold and snowy?   

[Desertdog]

You mean...cold and snowy?

Not really, but maybe it would shut Al Gore about GW up if it happened.

Oh yeah, now it is "Climate Change" so he would need money to warm us up again.

[gunsmith]

Climate change is real, last January it was warm in Wyoming, now it is quite chilly there.
Also, Cheney is from Wyoming, this proves it was an inside job!