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...Hampshire officials have already floated the idea of charging the anti-Seabrook Clamshell Alliance for the costs incurred by their civil disobedience. Just imagine what a RICO-like law would have done to the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1960s...
...Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "The Warren Court took cases where Government won ((in lower courts)). This court seems to be taking cases where Government lost below. It is putting liberal judges back in line." Civil rights and civil liberties groups have taken note. Ronald Ellis of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund admits that, in order not "to tempt the fates," his organization has refrained from appealing cases to the high court and is considering filing more suits in state courts...
...origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design a program. With money mainly from American foundations, the LRC was founded in 1978. Since then, it has grown from a staff of three full-time lawyers with a $100,000 budget to 30 lawyers, half of them white, and a budget of $2 million...
...needed to eliminate white domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional, so Parliament can and does deprive citizens of their rights by passing statutes that the courts are unable to reject. Says Julius Chambers, Greenberg's successor at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "The law has provided some limited protection, but you're not going to have any major breakthroughs until you have a changed constitution...
...Williams said the NAACP told him that they probably would not offer legal assistance "because the case didn't involve physical violence of any sort." Al Owen, the Boston branch manager for the NAACP, refused to comment on the case yesterday...