{"id":32425,"date":"2022-08-18T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32425"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:36:16","slug":"dellaquila-lawsuit-against-nra-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32425","title":{"rendered":"Dell&#8217;Aquila Lawsuit Against NRA Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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04:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 04:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2779,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/news.bloomberglaw.com\\\/business-and-practice\\\/nra-donors-revive-near-dead-lawsuit-after-finding-new-lawyers?utm_source=Email_Share&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2020\/10\/01\/court-rules-donors-fraud-suit-against-nra-has-standing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fraud lawsuit<\/a><\/strong> against the National Rifle Association <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.80011\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.80011.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by donor David Dell&#8217;Aquila<\/a><\/strong> for the misuse of donations has now been revived. The NRA&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.80011\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.80011.73.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filing for bankruptcy<\/a><\/strong> and (deleted under threat of lawsuit) had put the case on hold for over a year and a half. Dell&#8217;Aquila was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/desktop\/document\/DellAquilavLaPierreetalDocketNo319cv00679MDTennAug062019CourtDock\/3?1660824974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given until yesterday<\/a><\/strong> to get new attorneys or the case would be dismissed. Fortunately, new attorneys were appointed on Monday and the NRA&#8217;s Motion to Dismiss was removed meaning the case can move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/nra-donors-revive-near-dead-lawsuit-after-finding-new-lawyers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Law<\/a><\/strong> (the news site and not the gun control group) reported this about the new set of attorneys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Jonathan Loevy and Michael Kanovitz, two partners at Chicago-based Loevy &amp; Loevy, are now representing the donors alongside Stites &amp; Harbison member John Wingo, who\u2019s based in Nashville, and Louisville-based members T. Morgan Ward Jr. and Chadwick McTighe.<\/p><p>Loevy &amp; Loevy handles complex litigation and commercial matters but is best known in Chicago for representing wrongfully convicted defendants seeking compensation from the state. The firm found out about the case when Bloomberg Law asked Kanovitz this month to review court documents and provide an independent expert opinion. He told Bloomberg Law the case was \u201cabsolutely a viable lawsuit\u201d and days later approached Dell\u2019Aquila and offered to represent him.<\/p><p>\u201cThis suit offers a unique opportunity to demand transparency from the NRA and reform the organization,\u201d Kanovitz said in a statement. \u201cWe will conduct a fulsome investigation and follow the money. Our goal is to correct the misconduct that has been going on behind closed doors and obtain compensation for the people the NRA defrauded.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loevy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Loevy &amp; Loevy<\/a><\/strong> firm and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loevy.com\/attorneys\/michael-kanovitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Kanovitz<\/a><\/strong> appear to have both experience and success in class action lawsuits according to their website. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stites.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stites &amp; Harbison<\/a><\/strong> is a large (185 attorney) Southeastern law firm with 11 offices across the South with the majority being in Tennessee and Kentucky. The three attorneys from this firm &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stites.com\/attorneys\/john-r-wingo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wingo<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stites.com\/attorneys\/t-morgan-ward-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ward<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stites.com\/attorneys\/chadwick-a-mctighe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McTighe <\/a><\/strong>&#8211; are all partners within the firm&#8217;s Business Litigation Service Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/nra-donors-revive-near-dead-lawsuit-after-finding-new-lawyers?utm_source=Email_Share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dell&#8217;Aquila is quoted<\/a><\/strong> as saying he feels as though he just won the $1.5 billion lottery when these attorneys came on-board.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it just got a lot tougher for the NRA on this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I received an email today (12\/21\/2022) from an attorney. This attorney demanded that I remove all reference to the attorney or else the attorney would file suit for &#8220;libel, intrusion, and false light&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I think I would have been justified in telling this attorney, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not changing it&#8221;, I don&#8217;t need the headache nor the potential expense defending it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fraud lawsuit against the National Rifle Association by donor David Dell&#8217;Aquila for the misuse of donations has now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32720,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions\/32720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}