Thursday, August 26, 2010

Honolulu lawsuit: LHC beats Wagner

After laborious proceedings, the judge in Hawaii ruled that Walter Wagner (picture)
  • had no standing;
  • failed to show a "credible threat of harm";
  • and misjudged whom he should sue because the U.S. government doesn't happen to own CERN or the LHC ;-):
Symmetry Magazine: LHC lawsuit dismissed by US court (click)




Although the final verdict against the most judicially active LHC alarmist looks pretty clear, it nevertheless doesn't seem impossible that a fruitcake will stop a big, multi-billion scientific experiment of the LHC magnitude sometime in the future as long as he encounters a comparable fruitcake playing the role of the judge.