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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (29925)2/3/1999 12:36:00 AM
From: Krowbar  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Abortion Providers Win In U.S. Case Over Web
Site

PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - In a case that tested the limits of free
speech on the Internet, a federal jury ordered anti-abortion activists
Tuesday to pay about $107 million in damages for publishing names and
photographs of abortion doctors on the World Wide Web and elsewhere.

The jury agreed with a group of abortion providers who argued that ''The
Nuremberg Files'' Web site and wanted-style posters depicting
physicians who performed abortions violated a law meant to protect
access to the procedure. The verdict by the eight-person jury followed a
three-week trial and five days of deliberations.

''The jury saw anti-choice 'Wanted posters' for what they are a hit list for
terrorists,'' said Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation
of America.

The jury found the defendants, including groups and individuals prominent
in the anti-abortion movement, violated federal racketeering statutes and
the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

With 14 defendants each ordered to pay millions of dollars in punitive
damages to six plaintiffs, the damages award totaled more than $107
million, said Maria Vullo, lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

Defendants denounced the verdict and suggested they would appeal on
grounds that the verdict violated their free-speech rights under the First
Amendment of the Constitution.

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