Word: roadblockers
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...issue was the arrest of three motorists arrested at a 1983 roadblock in Sunderland, Mass. The justices rejected motions filed by the motorists' lawyers that the roadblock violated the drivers' constitutional protection against unfair search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment...
...state's highest court in an earlier case had rejected evidence gathered by the Revere police at a roadblock and had offered guidelines under which a roadblock might be constitutional...
...landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major roadblock was Federal Judge Thomas Griesa, who twice denied the Army Corps of Engineers a permit to dredge the Hudson. Then the House of Representatives voted this month to kill funding for the project after Congressman Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, labeled Westway "a real estate boondoggle posing as a highway...
...Massachusetts and a host of other states, police have begun forming so-called rolling roadblocks. Those are walls of LTDs that straddle the highway and, cruise along at no more than 55.06 miles an hour. Unless you want to pass a State Trooper in the breakdown lane (about as bright a move as shouting "Fag!" at him), you don't have much choice about whether to drive 55. The rolling roadblock made its debut July 3 on Interstate...
...unleashing the enormous force of the government and the violence we have seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...