High Court Overturns Injunction That Curbed Clinic Violence
National NOW Times › Vol. 38 Nbr. 2, July 2006
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A legal fight that spanned 20 years ended on Feb 28, 2006, when the US Supreme Court ruled in NOW v. Scheidler that a federal racketeering law could not be used against those who organized violence aimed at closing women's health clinics. In 1986, after years of increasing violence at clinics across the US, the National Organization for Women and two reproductive health clinics sued Joseph Scheidler, the ProLife Action Network and others in an effort to stop their reign of terror.
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High Court Overturns Injunction That Curbed Clinic Violence
A legal fight that spanned 20 years ended on Feb. 28, 2006, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NO Wv. Scheidler that a federal racketeering law could not be used against those who organize...
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