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=> not a good precedent...

not a good precedent...

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, November 1 2007, 0:34:49 (CET)
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...you may emotionally like the outcome of this trial...but then lots of Germans, Jews included, in the beginning approved when the government got "those" people...never dreaming it was a reghersal to come get them next...this should have remained an exercise in Free Speech...as hateful as you might feel it is...becausse one day, your views may be deemed hateful too.

Jury awards father $11M in funeral case

By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

BALTIMORE - A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.

The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.

Snyder's attorney, Craig Trebilcock, had urged jurors to determine an amount "that says don't do this in Maryland again. Do not bring your circus of hate to Maryland again."

Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags."

A number of states have passed laws regarding funeral protests, and Congress has passed a law prohibiting such protests at federal cemeteries. But the Maryland lawsuit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.

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