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JUSTICE Department regulations now prohibit "creative" uses of RICO by the federal government, but this restriction doesn't apply to private organizations. In Philadelphia, an abortion clinic sued protesters who picketed their clinic weekly for nine years. The case was complicated by the fact that the defendants broke in a...
The state police department was sued soon afterthe checkpoint program began. The lawsuit allegedthat the checkpoints violated the FourthAmendment's ban on unreasonable police searchesand seizures.
Schlesinger then sued the brokerage for invasion of privacy in Massachusetts county court and won the case last June (Merrill Lynch is appealing). The judge issued an injunction prohibiting Merrill Lynch from calling Schlesinger, yet barely two months later, a Merrill Lynch broker rang him up. The attorney filed a...
But not without a fight. Last fall, while candidate George Bush was proclaiming himself an environmentalist, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Miami sued the state of Florida for breaking its own laws by pumping pollutants onto federal lands. State officials, including Republican Governor Bob Martinez, were stunned. Florida's farmers...
Alaska, meanwhile, has sued Exxon and the other oil companies that operate in the state for as yet unspecified damages. In a campaign of harassment (financed almost entirely from cleanup funds provided by Exxon), state officials manage to find fault at every turn. Says Steve Provant, a state cleanup coordinator...