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- From: trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre)
- Subject: Re: Bray Decision (Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.180643.17819@news.unomaha.edu>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1993Jan24.005658.19354@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:06:43 GMT
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- dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu writes:
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- > In article <1993Jan23.223128.7139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- > gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >
- > > According to the Washington post, Scalia stated that since the OR
- > > people would also be blocking any men who were seeking abortions,
- > > the attacks were not aimed at women.
- >
- > No, that's a wild distortion of the Court's opinion. I am
- > re-posting a short syllabus which gives a summary of the
- > decision. I will repost the full decision if there are
- > enough requests.
-
- > Respondents, abortion clinics and supporting organizations, sued to
- > enjoin petitioners, an association and individuals who organize and
- > coordinate antiabortion demonstrations, from conducting demonstra-
- > tions at clinics in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area. The
- > District Court held that, by conspiring to deprive women seeking
- > abortions of their right to interstate travel, petitioners had violated
- > the first clause of 42 U.S.C. 1985(3), which prohibits conspiracies
- > to deprive ``any person or class of persons of the equal protection of
- > the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws'';
- > ruled for respondents on their pendent state-law claims of trespass
- > and public nuisance; as relief on these three claims, enjoined petition-
- > ers from trespassing on, or obstructing access to, specified clinics;
- > and, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988, ordered petitioners to pay
- > respondents attorney's fees and costs on the 1985(3) claim. The
- > Court of Appeals affirmed.
-
- [The rest deleted]
-
- That's okay; the Justice Department will most likely allow
- lawsuits by pro-choice groups and abortion clinics
- under RICO laws.
-
- SRM
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