ACLU Sues San Franscio 49ers
Posted on December 16, 2005
Two longtime 49ers season ticket holders have sued the football organization over the pat-down searches it has implemented before games at Monster Park this season.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed the suit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of Dan Sheehan, a season-ticker holder for almost 40 years, and his wife, Kathleen, alleging that the team’s policy violates the couple’s right to privacy under the state Constitution.
“Something’s not right here,” said Dan Sheehan, a retired glazier who said he’d owned season tickets since 1967. “You don’t get a pat-down for going to a public event. That doesn’t happen in my country.”
The National Football League, citing post-Sept. 11 terrorism concerns, issued a directive before the start of the season for its 32 teams to conduct mandatory searches of fans before they enter stadiums.
Forty-niners spokesman Aaron Salkin said the league was concerned for the safety of its fans.
“It’s NFL-mandated policy,” Salkin said. “The use of limited pat-down security screenings is entirely reasonable and serves to better protect the fans in our stadium.”
It was only in October that the ACLU sued the Tampa Bay Bucs. I only have one question, are they going to sue each and everyone of the NFL teams individually for something the NFL mandated? Why not go after the NFL’s policy? Are they hoping to get attorney’s fees rewarded, wasting our tax dollars for each individual team?
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Yes Jay. I think that is the number one goal of the ACLU, to get money so they can further their cause, which is socialism.
“Public event?” I thought the NFL was a private company.
Watch out–next, they’ll be making us go through metal detectors in public airports. NOT IN MY COUNTRY.
It seems to me that the teams brought this upon themselves by strong-arming cities and counties into building stadia for them. If the teams played their games on their own property rather than government property, there would be no state action and the plaintiffs would have no grounds to sue.
Wait, so if this a “public” event does that mean that Mr. Sheehan’s seat is now “public” and that anyone can just show up and claim it each game? Somehow I don’t think he has tought this argument of his through entirely.
I would like to see what kind of Hell he would raise if when he showed up someone was sitting in his “public” seat.
What’s with the crazy people named Sheehan?
You know, the ACLU should be suing the 49ers over the stadium name — that’s pretty discrimatory of Monsters.
I just wonder how many people would have been killed if that idiot in Norman, OK would have blown up if he had not been turned away at the gate because he would not let security go through his back pack. He then went and sat down on a park bench and blew himself up. No innocent people were killed.