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Such talk is not illegal--unless it can be directly linked to a crime. But a different strategy to attack proponents of violence was used in a lawsuit filed this month by the family of Dr. David Gunn. The suit, authored by attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled...
According to Ashkenazy, the Bermuda spring break had its start as a Harvard performing arts institution with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The Kroks followed suit some 25 years ago, followed in turn by the Pitches and finally the Dins, who only recently began to make the trip south...
...speaking of free agency, Andy Messersmith's and Pat McNally's successful suit against the reserve clause ushered in free agency in baseball--a first for American sports. (To be precise, their case was never decided, because, realizing that they held an untenable position, the owners agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement that allowed players with six or more years of experience to sign with another club without requiring the new club to compensate...
...government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that any county has the right to enact laws to override the Constitution...
...roads. Last July 4, Nye County commissioner Richard Carver, flouting federal law, used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him. Last week, even in the face of the federal suit, the Nevada state senate passed a measure that sought to strengthen the state's claims to federal lands...