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well joe, im sick and tired of this mess. not that im for one second is thinking that they'll be able to stop the sale but it's just so damn frustrating if we have to through this process yet again...

what you saying flames? you, me, two baseball bats and two ticktes to texas?

Copy of court document here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/39284612/Liverpool-TRO

it is now. lets roll.

i thought this is britain, i thought we have the SAS, [oops] use them on these two terrorist [oops]

youre not going to like this lads.....


11.03pm: At around 9.20pm we were expecting to hear an announcement that the sale of Liverpool had been agreed. This is a quite astonishing turn of events. The sheer front of the pair is simply astounding.

10.55pm: Here is a concise round-up of recent events.

10.48pm: More on the jurisdiction issue. "If Royal Bank of Scotland does business dealings in Texas, courts there would certainly have personal jurisdiction over the bank," writes Daniel Stauss.

Elsewhere in the Telegraph Paul Kelso claims that "The jurisdiction of the Texas order in the UK was not immediately clear, but sources said the impact of the action could be to put RBS, which has considerable US interests, Broughton, through his role as BA chairman, and NESV in contempt of a US Court."

LFC PR:

Following the successful conclusion of High Court proceedings today, the Boards of Directors of Kop Football and Kop Holdings met tonight and resolved to complete the sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures.

Regretably, Thomas Hicks and George Gillett have tonight obtained a Temporary Restraining Order from a Texas District Court against the independent directors, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and NESV to prevent the transaction being completed.

The independent directors consider the restraining order to be unwarranted and damaging and will move as swiftly as possible to seek to have it removed.

A further statement will be made in due course.

just reads that on proper side mate, [oops] unbelievable if i was rich as sheikh mansour boy oh boy would hicks n his bitch gillette be swimmin with the 3 eyed fish in the mersey

The judge has got an email address get it for everyone now

Texas law precedent:

two previous Texas Supreme Court cases, PHC-Minden L.P. v. Kimberly Clark and BMC Software Belgium v. Marchand, which both declined to find general jurisdiction because of insufficient control and unity between parent and subsidiary. The Court distinguished both cases, noting that the issue here was not whether Limited’s actions could be attributed to Spir, but whether Spir’s own conduct in marketing products in Texas created jurisdiction. The Court concluded that, when a manufacturer specifically targets Texas, it is amenable to product liability suits in Texas,

So suing an English football team doing its main business in England isnt possible. There is already case law in Texas.