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A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

A pipeline company’s lawsuit against the environmental group could chill free speech, experts said. First Amendment issues are likely to figure prominently in an appeal.

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Greenpeace representatives outside the courthouse in Mandan, N.D., where the jury ruled against the environmental organization this month.

Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy β€” β€˜Jail No Bail’ β€” and energized a movement.
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