Court Takes Up RICO Case - Scheidler vs. NOW

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review - For the
Third Time In 'Rico' Abortion Protest Case
CHICAGO -- The U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition filed last March for Joseph Scheidler and other Chicago-based abortion protesters. The Court agreed for the 3rd time to review Scheidler vs. NOW -- the mega-sized, marathon class action lawsuit. The case has ziged and zaged through all three levels of the federal judicial system over the last two decades. Filed over 19 years ago by NOW and abortion providers in June, 1986, as a federal antitrust case (protesters "conspired to restrain trade"), from the start the case was aimed at anti-abortion activist, Joseph Scheidler, who had just published a protest manual, Closed: 99 Ways to Shut Down the Abortion Industry (1985).

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Abortion protests to get more Supreme Court scrutiny
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court intervened again in a long-running fight over protests outside abortion clinics. The Court has already dealt with the same case several times before. (See Scheidler v. NOW.)

Posted by Editor at June 29, 2005 11:34 AM