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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Police Immune from Abortion Protester’s Arrest Claims

December 6, 2019December 9, 2019 JOE HARRIS
abortion, immunity, Police, protests, Sixth Circuit, threats

Four police officers who arrested an anti-abortion protester over a perceived bomb threat are entitled to qualified immunity, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.

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Criminal Religion 

Colorado Man Pleads Not Guilty in Plot to Bomb Synagogue

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 AMANDA PAMPURO
anti-Semitism, Bombing, colorado, Hate Crimes, pleas, threats

A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.

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Criminal Regional 

South LA Teen Arrested Over Threat of Mass School Shooting

November 22, 2019November 25, 2019 NATHAN SOLIS
Los Angeles County, Mass Shooting, schools, teens, threats

A 13-year-old student who threatened to carry out a shooting at his South Los Angeles middle school had a list with the names of students and staff, a hand-drawn map of his school, and an AR-15 assault rifle at his home when he was arrested, police said Friday.

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Appeals Civil Rights Criminal 

Criminal Threat

October 25, 2019October 28, 2019 BRIEF
dbrief3, Free Speech, Kansas, threats

The Supreme Court of Kansas ruled that a man was improperly convicted of making a criminal threat, finding that the state law allowing for such a conviction is “unconstitutionally overbroad” because it does not account for the speaker’s intent and could curb free speech.

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Criminal Media Politics 

Appeals Court Keeps Roger Stone Gag Order Intact

October 22, 2019 MEGAN MINEIRO
D.C. Circuit, Free Speech, Roger Stone, Social Media, threats

Roger Stone, longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, remains barred from social media after the D.C. Circuit refused to lift a gag order Tuesday. 

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Employment Government National 

US Public Land Workers Getting Assaulted, Threatened on Job

October 21, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Assault, Bundys, property, ranchers, threats, wildlife refuges

Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.

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Media 

Saudi Refugee

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 BRIEF
Asylum, Brief2, Fraud, privacy, Saudi Arabia, threats, Twitter

A Saudi Arabian who was granted political asylum in Canada sued Twitter and McKinsey & Co. in federal court for privacy invasion and fraud, claiming they exposed him and his family to violent retaliation, such as happened to his friend and colleague Jamal Khashoggi.

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Civil Rights Criminal Religion 

Anti-Semitic Attacks on the Rise in United States

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
anti-Semitism, race, threats

At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the United States since the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly one year ago, a Jewish civil rights group reported Sunday.

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Appeals Civil Rights Education 

Threatening Posts

October 16, 2019October 17, 2019 BRIEF
dbrief3, Florida, Mass Shooting, schools, teens, threats

A Florida appeals court upheld the finding that a juvenile was guilty of disrupting a school function for writing threatening posts online while off-campus two days after the Parkland school shooting.

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Appeals Civil Rights Law 

Minnesota Court Strikes Down Coercion Law on Free Speech Grounds

October 7, 2019October 8, 2019 MATT REYNOLDS
coercion, First Amendment, Free Speech, marijuana, Minnesota, threats

Minnesota prosecutors charged a man under an unconstitutional statute after he threatened to send video of his ex-girlfriend talking about marijuana to her employer, a state appeals court ruled Monday.

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Environment Latest Headlines 

Greta Thunberg Effigy Hanged Under Rome Bridge

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Climate change, Italy, protests, teens, threats

An effigy of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg strung up under a bridge in Rome has prompted Italian authorities to open an investigation for “aggravated threats,” media reported Monday. 

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Appeals Criminal 

BB Guns

October 3, 2019October 4, 2019 BRIEF
dbrief3, Guns, schools, threats

An appeals court in New Mexico ruled that a minor was properly convicted of assault and carrying a deadly weapon after bringing a BB gun to school and threatening to shoot his principal, whose discovery of a CO2 cartridge and observation of a bulge in the student’s waistband proved the child “used” the weapon while making the threats. 

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Criminal Entertainment Trials 

R. Kelly Will Stay Jailed Ahead of Brooklyn Trial

October 2, 2019 AMANDA OTTAWAY
celebrity, NYC, sex abuse, threats

R. Kelly must await his May 2020 trial in Brooklyn from behind bars, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. 

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Appeals Business Employment 

Dollar General Asks Eighth Circuit to Toss Union Vote

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 JOE HARRIS
bribery, Eighth Circuit, Missouri, retail, threats, unions

An attorney for Dollar General argued Tuesday before the Eighth Circuit that a union certification for six of its employees in Missouri should be set aside because threats and bribes from a union organizer influenced the vote.

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Criminal National 

Police See Rise in Threat Tips After Latest Mass Murders

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP4, California, Guns, Mass Shooting, Police, threats

It had all the makings of a massacre: six guns, including a Colt AR-15 rifle, about 1,000 rounds of ammunition, a bulletproof vest, and an angry Southern California man who threatened to kill co-workers at a hotel and its guests.

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Criminal Entertainment National 

NJ Labor Day Parade Canceled Due to ‘Destructive Devices’

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP2, festivals, New Jersey, threats

Authorities canceled a New Jersey Labor Day parade that the governor was to attend Monday because “destructive devices” were found near the parade route.

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Civil Rights Health 

Slurs Not ‘Threats of Force’

August 30, 2019September 3, 2019 BRIEF
abortion, clinics, dbrief5, injunction, protests, threats

A federal court denied an abortion center’s motion for an injunction against a protester who has yelled racial and homophobic slurs at staff members and patients. The comments are not “threats of force,” so he has not violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. 

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Criminal Entertainment Sports 

Arrest Warrant Issued for Lakers Center DeMarcus Cousins

August 30, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alabama, athletes, California, domestic violence, NBA, threats, warrant

Alabama police have issued an arrest warrant for Los Angeles Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge for harassing communications.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Political Asylum

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 BRIEF
11th circuit, Asylum, dbrief5, Drug cartels, human rights, threats

The 11th Circuit ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to consider a political asylum claim from a man whose life was threatened by the Gulf Cartel, “one of Mexico’s oldest and most dangerous cartels.”

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Criminal National 

Former US Diplomat Gets 5 Years for Anti-Arab Threats

August 15, 2019 BRANDI BUCHMAN
Diplomacy, Hate Crimes, sentencing, State Department, threats

Hate-filled voicemails and death threats terrorized employees of an Arab-American nonprofit for years, and the former State Department diplomat behind the harassment was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.

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