Update on the Member Intervention in the NY AG NRA case
The intervenors filed their rebuttal response to the NRA and the NY AG filings last week. The responses are on this site - go to page 5 and start with item 322 for the new material. For reference, Here is the link to the message about the initial filing.
The key points in the rebuttal are in the introduction of item 322:
“The NRA’s five million members would be shocked to learn that the New York Attorney General can sue to dissolve the Association and distribute its assets (namely their dues and contributions built over decades) to other entities, without any notice to the members and no opportunity to contest this before the Court makes a finding as to dissolution. Yet, that is the AG’s position.
The NRA’s membership would likewise be incredulous to learn their interests are being defended by lawyers with conflicts of interest so egregious that a federal bankruptcy judge stated concerns about "the manner and secrecy in which authority to file the [Chapter 11] case was obtained in the first place", and if the case was re-filed "this Court would immediately take up some of its concerns about disclosure, transparency, secrecy, conflicts of interest of officers and litigation counsel [the Brewer firm], and the unusual involvement of litigation counsel in the affairs of the NRA...". Chapter 11 dismissal order, p. 37 (emphasis added); NYSCEF Doc. # 247, Ex. # 3 to Intervenors’ Memorandum of Law.
Nevertheless the NRA’s present counsel and individual Defendants say that no matter what conflicts of interest Brewer has, and no matter what oversight abdication by the NRA Board occurred, NRA members are “adequately represented” and have no standing to object or seek independent counsel for the Association. The sum and substance of the present parties’ message to the NRA’s membership is “even though the AG is trying to dissolve your Association, and even though the NRA’s law firm, board and executives are deeply conflicted, none of you can do anything about it.” That is not the law.”
The Judge in this matter has a track record of prompt rulings. We should hear something in a couple of weeks.
I look forward to the NRA in Danger Blog’s take on the recent filings. If you haven’t read the last 2 posts, they are must reads: The Board Continues to Play the Role of Sheep and The NRA continues it’s decline.
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