conspiracy

Civil Rights Regional Religion 

Picketing

BRIEF
China, conspiracy, injunction, stalking

Chinese American pastor Bob Fu, who is president of the nonprofit ChinaAid, and billionaire Guo Wengui — and a group of media companies and individuals Wengui is associated with — agreed to a preliminary injunction in Fu’s federal suit claiming Wengui and the other defendants stalked him and conspired to assassinate his character. The defendants agreed not to picket near Wengui’s home or business, or approach him or his family, but they entered the order “without any admission … of wrongdoing or violation of law.”

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Civil Rights Government International Politics 

Jailed ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Sues Over Arrest in US Court

DANIEL CONRAD
Africa, arrests, conspiracy, emotional distress, genocide, Texas

The recently imprisoned Rwandan hotelier whose actions during the East African nation’s 1994 genocide inspired the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda” claims in a federal lawsuit that a Greek private charter airline and a Rwandan secret agent conspired to kidnap and jail him.

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Appeals Criminal 

Bundy Buddy

BRIEF
Bundys, conspiracy, Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit upheld a man’s conviction for conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States related to the stand-off between Clive Bundy and the federal government. Evidence supporting a theory that the man solely intended to protect the Bundy family from government agents’ use of excessive force is irrelevant because the evidence concerned circumstances at the Bundy ranch before he arrived there, and therefore has no plausible bearing on his state of mind and actions after he arrived.

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