Florida judge dismisses fraud lawsuit against DNC

[Jim Lane]

61. You're misstating the question.

The legal issue is not whether "there were significant Democrats that would not have donated {to} the DNC if they thought Bernie might not be the candidate". Instead, the legal issue is whether there were any donors who would not have donated if they had known that the DNC was violating its own neutrality rule.

Contrary to the various smears on DU, the plaintiffs' legal theory was not that they had right to see Bernie nominated. Their legal theory was that they had a right to rely on the DNC's own public statements about how the nomination fight would be conducted.

Judge Zloch didn't reject that legal theory. Instead, he dismissed the case because the complaint didn't sufficiently allege facts to bring the plaintiffs within their theory. I gave a detailed explanation in this post in another thread about the decision.