Good News

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a judgment against the idiot survivors of the Branch Davidians. The litigious nimrods filed suit to collect damages from the federal government for the deaths of David Koresh's fucked-up followers. Following bench trials, U.S. District Judge Walter Smith came to the only sane conclusion, namely, that Koresh and his fellow lunatics started the fires which destroyed the Davidian compound.

A federal appeals court rejected an attempt by survivors to collect damages from the government for the deadly 1993 confrontation outside Waco, Texas, between federal agents and members of the Branch Davidian cult.

Without dissent, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday turned aside contentions that a lower court judge who ruled against the survivors was biased.

Scores of Branch Davidian members, including leader David Koresh, were killed in 1993 when government agents stormed their compound after a weekslong standoff. Survivors have been pursuing a $675 million wrongful death claim for years.

Mort Zuckerman ought to add this case to his annals of frivolous litigation. This one's even a true story.