Stanley G. Hilton is an author and former attorney from

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. Hilton filed a $7 billion class action lawsuit, in 2002, against United States President

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, members of his administration (including

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) and others. The lawsuit was composed of 400 plaintiffs, including 14 families of

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victims, with two named plaintiffs representing the class. The lawsuit alleged Bush administration complicity in allowing the

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. The case was dismissed on Dec 30, 2004, with the judge ruling that US citizens do not have any right to sue a sitting president, based on the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity; that the lawsuit "presents a non-justicable political question;" that the plaintiffs "lack standing to sue on behalf of all taxpayers;" that the plaintiffs "failed to establish the required causal connection between

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alleged injuries and these defendants' conduct;" and that "deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment." In June 2012, he was disbarred from practicing law in California.

Education and early life

Hilton is a native San Franciscan who graduated from Lowell High School (1967) in San Francisco,

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(BA 1971 and graduate school 1971–72),

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(JD 1975), and

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(MBA 1979). He also attended Oxford University (in England, 1970) and JFK School of Government at Harvard University (1984–85).

Background

Stanley Hilton is also an author having written four books, including an

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, ''Bob Dole, American Political Phoenix'' (1988); ''Senator for Sale'' (1995), another biography which purports to reflect Hilton's deep animus towards Dole, ''Glass Houses'' (1998), about congressional

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s; and ''To Pay or Not to Pay'' (2003). Hilton is a resident of

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, and in 2009 he sued

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, 62 foreign and domestic airlines, the Town of Hillsborough, and

and San Mateo Counties for jet noise and air pollution and public nuisance caused by reverse jet engine propulsion on takeoff from the Northeast runway at San Francisco International Airport. In 1995 he ran for Hillsborough school board. Hilton has sued major banks for "predatory and fraudulent mortgage lending practices", accusing them of systematically bypassing and violating state and federal laws and being unable to prove assignment of loans. He has called for a complete collapse of the foreclosure "racket scam banking business" and called for its replacement by a new system of "Honest People's Banks."

Disbarment

After several prior suspensions by the

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, Hilton was disbarred from practicing law on June 16, 2012, for misconduct.State Bar Court: Decision
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References

External links

Stanley Hilton case – US district court decision Dec. 30, 2004
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Education and early life

Background

Disbarment

See also

References

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