Talk Mensa With Me

Dizzy trying to find out which way Mensa is going? Make this one of your stops to find out about the ins and outs of American Mensa, Ltd. (AML).

Interested in the happenings of Metropolitan Washington Mensa? I'll be able to either directly answer your questions regarding the running of the chapter (certainly through Oct. 31, 2011, my last day as LocSec) or forward you to the appropriate person who can do so.

If you want to get in touch with me, contact me at boxmaster@alumni.williams.edu or just click on any of the "comments" links throughout this blog.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Another AML lawsuit - sigh

Well, apparently there's another lawsuit. This time, AML is being sued for reinstatement of membership by a former (presumably expelled) member. However, AMC has decided, in its infinite lack of wisdom (IMO), to not state the name of the person who filed the case, what the jurisdiction is where the case was filed, or where we might be able to locate this typically public information.

I do not understand what the problem would be with giving any of the above facts. It is not admitting any guilt, not taking any position on the case or the merits thereof, nothing that could be used against AML in the court case itself. It would merely be stating the basic fact of what was alleged and by whom, and what our publicly filed response to the suit is.

I tried to find a record of it online myself and was unable to find any record where AML was the defendant in New York State, Tarrant County (where the National Office is in Texas), DeKalb or Fulton County (where Atlanta, GA is, former chapter of Barry Levine), Hawaii (former chapter of Eddie Conway), or Minnesota (a former webmaster out there, whose name escapes me at the moment). I don't know how long it takes for court filings in any of those areas to be placed online. Nor, obviously, do I know if I'm really even looking in the right places.

If someone has a Westlaw or LexisNexis account, it should be much easier to do a quick search rather than the hunt and peck method that is at my disposal.

1 comment:

  1. The webmaster in Minnesota who was expelled is Al Heigl. More details are in the MPedia article:

    http://mpedia.dan.info/index.php?title=Al_Heigl

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