On Friday, we told you about the decision of the Supreme Court to discharge the injunction against BGYEA, which blocked them from legally planting corn in the Harmonyville Buffer Zone area set aside as road reserve.
Today, the government fired off a release setting out its side of the story: it says the injunction expired and the court did not extend it, but the Government can apply for another injunction.
Government says it, quote, "continues to pursue the removal of illegal occupants within the buffer zone."
Today, we ran into BGYEA's attorney at the courthouse and she gave us a reaction to Government's statement:
Audrey Matura-Shepherd - Attorney for BGYEA
"It's just a nice, diplomatic way of admitting that they lost - because they cannot refute the fact that the interim injunction was removed. And that's a given. I can even recap why it was removed if you want - but most importantly the Judge even said clearly that if there is any other application for any other injunction it will not be ex-parte. That means it will not be in the absence of Mr. Petillo or anybody else they want to injunct. It has to be that we get notice before. Of course I expect government to be malicious and to seek anything possible, as many injunctions as they want, but no matter how many injunctions they seek, at the end of the day the law will prevail. The court will be utilized to deal with this matter civilly and I just ask that they stop harassing my client. Because no matter what you do, government, the fact is that you can't have this ex-parte injunction, you lost it, you disobeyed your very own court order. I wish the media could have been allowed in chambers to hear when the Judge said that the government needs to learn how to act lawful, and not unlawful."
The full hearing on this issue of trespass brought by the Government against BGYEA is set for June 30.
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