EPSTEIN VICTIMS SUED FBI TO UNCOVER “THE FBI’S ROLE IN EPSTEIN’S CRIMINAL SEX TRAFFICKING RING”, DISMISSED BECAUSE VICTIMS INSISTED ON ANONYMITY
You may or may not have heard that in the beginning of 2024, a dozen victims (Jane Does 1-12) sued the FBI for failing in its duties in pursuing and prosecuting Epstein and his co-conspirators.
The complaint 27-page complaint (included for Notes from the Front members) starts out:
“For over two decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (hereinafter “FBI”) permitted Jeffrey Epstein to sex traffic and sexually abuse scores of children and young women by failing to do the job the American people expected of it and that the FBI’s own rules and regulations required: investigate the reports, tips, and evidence it had of rampant sexual abuse and sex trafficking by Epstein and protect the young women and children who fell victim to him.
As a result of the continued failures of the FBI, Jane Does 1-12 bring this lawsuit to get to the bottom-once and for all- of the FBI’s role in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring.”
But what you may not have heard is that the lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed by the Plaintiffs, and *why* they dismissed it.
Here is what may be a very hard pill to swallow for some of you:
It was dismissed because they didn’t meet the requirements for a lawsuit to proceed anonymously (actually pseudonymously), and so they dropped their lawsuit.
According to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Judge’s ruling, a complaint must name all the parties.” This Rule “serves the vital purpose of facilitating public scrutiny of judicial proceedings,” and is a rule that “cannot be set aside lightly.” As the Courts have ruled, “The people have a right to know who is using their courts.”
Typically the Courts only allow pseudonymous lawsuits (i.e. John Doe or Jane Doe lawsuits) if there is a compelling showing that the Plaintiffs are vulnerable *at the time of the filing of the lawsuit*. As the Court explains in its second rejection to Plaintiffs’ second request to be allowed to maintain anonymity (also included for Notes from the Front members), pseudonymous lawsuits may be approved for, for example, children “because children are conceived as more vulnerable or because the child whose privacy is at stake has not chosen for himself or herself to pursue the litigation.”
By contrast, says the Court, the Plaintiffs are now *adults*, who can make up their own minds, and who have *chosen* to pursue litigation.
This is the pill that’s most hard to swallow for people, but it’s the reality. For the most part, in order to get either culpable individuals or agencies into court, the victims are going to have to file lawsuits in their own names, and then not dismiss them.
And this is why I keep saying that “justice for the victims” may not come in the form you are looking for, but *will* come in other forms, such as people being taken down for financial crimes, being forced to resign and then being arrested for various crimes, etc..
Notes from the Front members: the complaint against the FBI, and the Court’s explanation for why the Jane Does couldn’t move forward anonymously, are in your inbox now.
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