Saturday, 3. January 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on January 3, 2004 at 6:32:00 PM CET
Protesters wary of new tactic by feds
Obscure 1872 law cited in case against Greenpeace
Local activists are closely watching a case winding through the federal courts in Miami. There, a federal prosecutor has dusted off a 19th century law designed to prevent bar owners from luring sailors ashore with booze and prostitutes to file charges against Greenpeace in connection with an April 2002 case in which two activists tried to hang an anti-President Bush banner on a container ship headed into port.
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