Supreme Court will decide on Clarin/Argentine government conflict next week
The Argentine Supreme Court delayed on Friday until next week an answer to President Cristina Fernandez administration’s complaint referred to the Media Law when the seven Justices are present. Currently one is overseas on an academic trip and two others were unable to attend the emergency meeting.
On Friday the high court received two ‘per saltum’ pleas that sought the annulment of a Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals' ruling which further extended an injunction placed by Clarín media group on Article 161 of the Media Law.
The two-hour meeting was held by the Supreme Court's president, Ricardo Lorenzetti, and Justices Elena Highton de Nolasco, Enrique Petracchi and Juan Carlos Maqueda.
The justices analysed the complaints and decided to send copies to Raul Zaffaroni, on a conference trip in Colombia and to Carmen Argibay and Carlos Fayt, also absent at the meeting.
The Argentine government wants the injunction dropped so that under controversial article 161 of the Media Law it can begin to dismember the Clarin group by forcibly selling or tendering all those broadcasting, television and cable licences, beyond the limit allowed by the 2009 law.
However the injunction was originally presented and extended on Thursday by a Civil and Commercial Appeals court since the Clarin Group is waiting a decision on the constitutionality of Articles 45 and 161 of the Media Law.
With the 'per saltum' plea the Argentine government avoids the lower courts and appeals directly so that the Supreme Court decides on “serious institutional cases”. Under the law the mere admission of the plea suspends all other actions, in this case the injunction and the Argentine government could then proceed to the dismembering of the Clarin group with no need to wait for the constitutional question of article 161.
However if the court throws out the plea the case continues as it was meaning the Argentine government would have to again appeal the injunction which would probably finally end on the desks of the Supreme Justice.
But the Supreme Court did throw out as ‘inadmissible’ a plea from the Clarin Group for the Justices not to consider the Argentine government ‘per saltum’ plea.
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The governmént can finish Clarín whenever it wants by blocking it's advértisement accepting or/and employee strikes manipulations.
Another sámple as recent UK/Murdoch opératioñ was intrigued by invísible hands.
So although the 'law' is enacted, the judiciary cannot rule on it.
Are you for fcuking real?
Please tell me, if you dare, just what is the judiciary for in that shithole you call AG?
What a damnable country it has become.
in a wáy,you are ríght the Argentina Government shoúld have done like British Government was the opération of Murdoch avoíding from complícated and redundant the law mechanisms.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/9719747/The-worlds-strangest-theme-parks.html#?frame=2417454
”Republic of the Children, Argentina
This theme park in La Plata, Argentina, contains all the key elements of a city (parliament, courthouse, airport, hotels, etc), but everything is downsized for children. It was opened in 1951 by Juan Peron, and legend has it that Walt Disney was inspired to build Disneyland after visiting.”
I would have thought Disney had nightmares about it, he built Disneyland after seeing BsAs, the floods, the poison gas, etc.
Even then it was a disaster: nothing changes.
The Government might even select for it the 'correct' Director General.
[Makes you wonder how Clarin and Veja have survived so long in countries believing in 'direct action'!]
This is a joking comment ... I think.
How a population reacts to a publication, news channel, etc., is relative to the education and experience of that population.
Interestingly, I hear more and more from young people complaining about her lies and taking away their freedom. They see a drug-addled, narcissistic, idiot who loves to hear herself speaking on prime time TV. The fact that she rambles incoherently is not lost on them.
I am happy to see they have already begun to restrict their Wheat exports...they know its bad bad bad
snicker
Elaine, you are much more overt than you used to be.
Do you really CARE that much about the Argentinan people,
that you inveigh so heavily against CFK?
Dec 08th, 2012 - 04:26 pm
US$ 100 says that the Supreme Court will find AGAINST the Government!!!!!!
If a cancer or HIV patient ( or any others) dies because they are denied the ability to buy imported drugs, is that considered murder? And do you think CFK/Moreno etc will be tried for crimes against humanity when they lose power?
You say:
“ Elaine, you are much more overt than you used to be.”
I say:
I'm happy to see that, even if you have become an insufferable geezer, those academic years of critical thinking still roam somewhere in that British brain of yours ;-)
Keep thinking...
It's healthy...
I think you might be right about this actually.
It could be that the Supreme Court is hacked off about the pressure that the government is putting on them so they could go against them.
But I won't take you bet though, Christmas being just around the corner and all that...
But will she just ignore it, if it suits her,
Will this panel slowly disappear one by one,
Who knows,
You will just have to wait wont you .lol.
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Impeachment?! Didnt Paraguay get suspended from the mercosur for using just that legal tool?
Its not a good aidea to try and intimidate the judiciary
Your source is suspect, numerous faults; Thursday was toxic cloud day/ floods. not much of anything going on
On the brighter note....chubby wnt back to Cuba and named a successor.
Dec 09th, 2012 - 01:54 pm
Estás en pedo!!!! CFK's popularity rating has fallen from 62% in October 2011 to 28% today!!!!!
Teresa Bo must be a kirchnerista, probably Isabel Sarli's daughter!!!!!
Boy, am I glad you sold your house in Mendoza and left 8 months ago - it feels like having being liberated from yet another Euro-Pensioner turnip that didn't want to learn, adapt or participate, that didn't do its homework and that thought he could live like a little king in Argentina with his little Danish Folkepension.....
My regards to den lille havfrue.....
She kept putting plaster on her face and scaring other children
Until she went on to plastic masks,
And even today, she scares children
No wonder south Americans avoid her.
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I don't think that 'I Don't Think' would be let in, why do you think that Think is in AG, apart from the fact that he fits in well with the other liars. ;o)
Its hypocrisy from every angle!
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