Press release for $25 million dollar lawsuit against Lincoln, Nebraska

[Midwest Shane]

Below is my press release for my lawsuit against the city of Lincoln, the state of Nebraska, the police department, the city council, and the liquor commission. I just filed it today...


LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
AUGUST 20, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SHANE HARRINGTON FILES $25 MILLION CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT
CLUB SMOOTH WRONGFULLY DENIED LIQUOR LICENSE BY LIQUOR COMMISSION

Shane Harrington, owner of MelTech, Inc. (MelissaMidwest.com and ValMidwest.com) filed suit today in Federal District Court for the District of Nebraska. The lawsuit states that: ?This action arises primarily out of the persecution of Plaintiff for exercising his First Amendment rights, and includes Due Process violations, Equal Protection Violations, harassment, defamation, invasion of privacy, tortious interference, and other unlawful conduct on the part of government entities and individuals who abused their powers under the color and authority of law in violation of the Constitution and the laws of the United States and the State of Nebraska.? These entities include the City of Lincoln's Police Department and the Nebraska Liquor Commission, as well as former police Chief Tom Casady, current police Chief Jim Peschong, police officer Russel Fossler, former City Council Chairman John Spatz, and Nebraska Liquor Control Commission Executive Director Hobert Rupe. Plaintiff's claims under Nebraska Revised Statutes 28-926 for Oppression Under Color of Office carry civil and criminal penalties as a Class II misdemeanor.

?Mr. Harrington was denied a liquor license due to the exercise of his First Amendment rights,? said one of the Plaintiff's attorneys, Evan Spencer, ?Shane is a native Nebraskan who leased a commercial property in Lincoln, created his own vodka, and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into Club Smooth, which had every legal right to obtain a liquor license. The Defendants denied granting this license strictly based upon his ownership of adult web sites that are entirely legal and unrelated to the night club he wished to operate.? ?Ever since my ex-wife and I launched our web site MelissaMidwest.com ten plus years ago, the Lincoln Police Department has done everything they can to make my life hell in my home town of Lincoln Nebraska. I have been harassed by law enforcement officers on numerous occasions without cause and the police department has kept me under surveillance for a decade. At the licensing hearing, the State of Nebraska and City of Lincoln displayed a file (?The Book?) which contained years of unlawful surveillance of me, my family, my friends and business associates. They also displayed numerous nude photographs of my ex-wife for no other reason than to embarrass and humiliate me. I was treated like a criminal because they didn?t like the profession I chose. Club Smooth would have been a great nightclub for Lincoln but the denial of my liquor license application killed the club - I not only lost most of my life savings in the project, but it damaged my credibility in the business world and caused me a great amount of distress.?

?The details of this case have outraged everyone who has heard them,? said Mr. Spencer, ?in addition, our research discovered approximately 15 other cases where the Nebraska Liquor Commission wrongfully denied liquor license applications, where courts later reversed their findings and ordered that licenses be granted, generally as a result of arbitrary and unreasonable decisions. In the case of Club Smooth, the Defendants granted a liquor license to a subsequent applicant who had criminal convictions for DUI and making a false statement to a police officer and not enough financing to purchase or operate the facility. Clearly, Mr. Harrington was denied Equal Protection of the law.?

Plaintiff's Attorneys:
Legal Contact - Hugh Abrahamson: [email protected]
Jill Abrahamson: [email protected]
Media Contact - Evan Spencer: [email protected]

U.S. District Court
District of Nebraska
Notice of Electronic Filing

The following transaction was entered on 8/20/2014 at 5:06 PM CDT and filed on 8/20/2014
Case Name: Harrington v. Nebraska Liquor Control Commission et al
Case Number: 4:14-cv-03171-LES-TDT

Filer:
Document Number: 2(No document attached)

Docket Text:
TEXT NOTICE OF JUDGES ASSIGNED: Senior Judge Lyle E. Strom and Magistrate Judge Thomas D. Thalken assigned. (MKR)

[TheSquealer]

Shocker that going through life being a huge douche bag comes back to haunt you. Can't wait until the jury gets to see all the content of your girl trespassing on private church property and masturbating with a cross as well as all the other stupid shit you've done for attention to promote porn sites

Ass wipe

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Shocker that going through life being a huge douche bag comes back to haunt you. Can't wait until the jury gets to see all the content of your girl trespassing on private church property and masturbating with a cross as well as all the other stupid shit you've done for attention to promote porn sites

Ass wipe

This was from almost 2 years ago and beyond and had NOTHING to do with ValMidwest and what she did. I only hired Val after they did all this shit to me. I am sorry but I will win this one...

[kane]

Growing up a friend of mine's parents owned a bar in the town we lived in. At one point the city decided there were too many fights at the bar (there had been 4 fights that year which was no more than any other bar in town, but someone of power didn't like my friend's mom). They revoked the liquor license. Three lawsuits and four years later they still couldn't get it back.

They ended up having to sell the place. The new owners were immediately issued the license.

Good luck, but when they decide they don't want you to have the license it is not easy to get one. Add in your history of having models getting arrested for getting naked in bars and in public and they are going to have plenty of ammo to fight you with.

There is a reason clubs and bars are one of the worst investments you can make.

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by kane

Growing up a friend of mine's parents owned a bar in the town we lived in. At one point the city decided there were too many fights at the bar (there had been 4 fights that year which was no more than any other bar in town, but someone of power didn't like my friend's mom). They revoked the liquor license. Three lawsuits and four years later they still couldn't get it back.

They ended up having to sell the place. The new owners were immediately issued the license.

Good luck, but when they decide they don't want you to have the license it is not easy to get one. Add in your history of having models getting arrested for getting naked in bars and in public and they are going to have plenty of ammo to fight you with.

There is a reason clubs and bars are one of the worst investments you can make.

Thanks and great post and yes that's why I went straight to federal court we only have 2 federal judges and they are very much focused on the law and the law only. They don't care about who they are friends with or what others will think if it's the law then you are fucked. They violated so many of my rights it's just stupid. That's what I am fighting, I don't care about getting my liquor license anymore I only care that they are exposed for the civil rights and constitutional rights violations.

[Spunky]

Best of luck with that

[kane]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

Thanks and great post and yes that's why I went straight to federal court we only have 2 federal judges and they are very much focused on the law and the law only. They don't care about who they are friends with or what others will think if it's the law then you are fucked. They violated so many of my rights it's just stupid. That's what I am fighting, I don't care about getting my liquor license anymore I only care that they are exposed for the civil rights and constitutional rights violations.

Sadly for my friend's parents it was a small town and everything, at first, was handled at the local level. There was just no way for them to win. They could have taken it to a higher court, but at that point they were both so fed up with the town that they decided to cut their losses.

The worst part of the whole thing was that my buddy's dad had run the place for 25+ years. When they sold it his brother's (who had died about 10 years before this) widow came out of the woodwork and demanded half the money from the sale. It turns out when their mom had died she left it to both of them in the will. The one brother wanted no part of it so he let my friend's dad have it. However, they never changed the legal papers. Since they never changed that she was still legally a half owner. She took them to court and ended up getting half of the sale value. They then sued her for half the costs of the legal fight they had put up for the last three years and she counter sued for half the profits from the last 25 years. Eventually they all dropped their cases, but the whole thing was sad.

[iSpyCams]

I know a guy in Indiana who runs a biker bar and the cops hate him. Once a year or so he loses his liquor license. He closes up for a week or two, renames, remodels and applies for a new license by "leasing" the property to some local bum or crackhead, gets approved, rinses, repeats.

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

This was from almost 2 years ago and beyond and had NOTHING to do with ValMidwest and what she did. I only hired Val after they did all this shit to me. I am sorry but I will win this one...

Any and all arguments and evidence regarding your character, your behavior and your business practices will have EVERYTHING to do with your lawsuit, you fucking moron.

[SilentKnight]

Just curious - what did you base the $25 million amount on?

[TheSquealer]

Furthermore, you are using this lawsuit for PR and to promote yourself and your sites being that it has nothing at all to do with your adult business or this forum, but is about a club not getting a liquor license. More of your same idiotic, self serving behavior.... that has come back again to bite you in the ass.

[L-Pink]

So you are challenging the state's decision not to grant a liquor license to an asshole?


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[pornlaw]

This is going to get real interesting real fast.

I guess we are going to find out how usually conservative federal Judges outside of Los Angeles feel about the porn industry...

Oh wait... We do already. They take every opportunity to dismiss mass copyright litigation filed on the behalf of studios whenever they can.

Well I guess we will see if they buy the First Amendment argument. Good luck. A lot of people are going to be watching this litigation closely. It might even have some application to the condom law issue... tenuous but maybe.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Shocker that going through life being a huge douche bag comes back to haunt you. Can't wait until the jury gets to see all the content of your girl trespassing on private church property and masturbating with a cross as well as all the other stupid shit you've done for attention to promote porn sites

Ass wipe

Yeah... I agree. Play with fire long enough and eventually you get burned.

[ErectMedia]

too much text not reading, not a single fuck was given

[TheSquealer]

And by the way fuckstick... How is attempting a $25,000,000,00 judgement against tax payers "protecting their rights"??????

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

And by the way fuckstick... How is attempting a $25,000,000,00 judgement against tax payers "protecting their rights"??????

Well if I win they won't try to EVER do something like this again...

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Just curious - what did you base the $25 million amount on?

AVN has the press release as well as the lawsuit itself! At the bottom of the article is the link and you can see the break down...

http://business.avn.com/articles/leg...se-570491.html

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by pornlaw

This is going to get real interesting real fast.

I guess we are going to find out how usually conservative federal Judges outside of Los Angeles feel about the porn industry...

Oh wait... We do already. They take every opportunity to dismiss mass copyright litigation filed on the behalf of studios whenever they can.

Well I guess we will see if they buy the First Amendment argument. Good luck. A lot of people are going to be watching this litigation closely. It might even have some application to the condom law issue... tenuous but maybe.

Thanks we have been working on this for almost a year to make sure everything is as perfect as it can be. We made sure we have solid proof of everything. See they are so cocky they did and said this stuff while be recorded in public hearings, in emails they were dumb enough to send me and the chairman of the liquor commission admitted to a state senator who is on my side that what they were doing probably was illegal and if I wanted to sue I could. Well that's what I am doing now...

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by Spunky

Best of luck with that

Thank you sir!

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

Thanks we have been working on this for almost a year to make sure everything is as perfect as it can be. We made sure we have solid proof of everything. See they are so cocky they did and said this stuff while be recorded in public hearings, in emails they were dumb enough to send me and the chairman of the liquor commission admitted to a state senator who is on my side that what they were doing probably was illegal and if I wanted to sue I could. Well that's what I am doing now...

Interesting. The judges will likely decide against you regardless of the law, just because .. but I wish you luck. I don't harbor any ill feelings toward you in 2014. Plus, titties. Ya know ...

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by Spunky

Best of luck with that