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If anyone is curious about the why: Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That McDonald's Is Located In The Area, And Would You Like To Eat Food With Ambient

by ear7h 6y ago

If anyone is curious about the why: Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That McDonald's Is Located In The Area, And Would You Like To Eat Food With Ambient Air In The Area Of Surrounding Properties, And We Will Putting Up Signs & Asbestos Tape Around McDonald's On The Sullivan Trust Property, Where The Manager Called The Police On Mort Sullivan For Cutting The Grass On The Sullivan Trust Property, And Everyone Can See The Picture Below Showing Area! If I understand this correctly, the McDonalds manager called the cops on Mort and then Mort fired back by filing a suit regarding lead and asbestos on the area. I'm not sure how Bucky got involved though.

paxswill 6y ago
I think reading from the bottom will give you the chronological order. Also, skipping over phrases like, “Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That...” helps a lot (that phrase, along with registering himself as an LLC is giving me strong sovcit vibes). As to what actually started this, it looks like there was a landfill with alleged hazmat in it, but there wasn’t a lawsuit filed in time (under the Clean Water Act? Because there’s an underground stream that flows into the Missouri River?) to make the original polluters clean it up. Mort believes that because Bucky’s, the McDonalds, and other companies (see the expanding list of real estate developers on his list) are now developing the area (and digging basements into the landfill) the timer for a Clean Water Act lawsuit has restarted. He cares as his property is next to the former landfill.
- jcranmer 6y ago
  That's generally my gist as well, although I'm not certain on the actual existence of the landfill, let alone what may or may not have been dumped into it. It's really hard to understand, because this is clearly a vexatious litigant who seems to believe that the law is a set of magic incantations to let him do what he wants (not unlike the sovereign citizen bullcrap you allude to). And the fact that he's dragging anyone remotely connected to the location into it makes it even harder.
  - zebraflask 6y ago
    If you're familiar with certain areas of the Midwest, nothing about this is surprising.
- tptacek 6y ago
  I assume both the "personal opinion" and "LLC" stuff is an attempt to shield himself from defamation claims (I'm not saying it's going to work, but you can't sue someone for a statement of opinion, and, maybe he believes that, were any suit to be filed, it'd have to be against his asset-bare LLC).
- skissane 6y ago
  It is amusingly meta that that the author of this article has now copied and pasted the above discussion into the end of it.

by ear7h 6y ago

paxswill 6y ago

I think reading from the bottom will give you the chronological order. Also, skipping over phrases like, “Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That...” helps a lot (that phrase, along with registering himself as an LLC is giving me strong sovcit vibes). As to what actually started this, it looks like there was a landfill with alleged hazmat in it, but there wasn’t a lawsuit filed in time (under the Clean Water Act? Because there’s an underground stream that flows into the Missouri River?) to make the original polluters clean it up. Mort believes that because Bucky’s, the McDonalds, and other companies (see the expanding list of real estate developers on his list) are now developing the area (and digging basements into the landfill) the timer for a Clean Water Act lawsuit has restarted. He cares as his property is next to the former landfill.

jcranmer 6y ago
That's generally my gist as well, although I'm not certain on the actual existence of the landfill, let alone what may or may not have been dumped into it. It's really hard to understand, because this is clearly a vexatious litigant who seems to believe that the law is a set of magic incantations to let him do what he wants (not unlike the sovereign citizen bullcrap you allude to). And the fact that he's dragging anyone remotely connected to the location into it makes it even harder.
- zebraflask 6y ago
  If you're familiar with certain areas of the Midwest, nothing about this is surprising.
tptacek 6y ago
I assume both the "personal opinion" and "LLC" stuff is an attempt to shield himself from defamation claims (I'm not saying it's going to work, but you can't sue someone for a statement of opinion, and, maybe he believes that, were any suit to be filed, it'd have to be against his asset-bare LLC).
skissane 6y ago
It is amusingly meta that that the author of this article has now copied and pasted the above discussion into the end of it.