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:: Sunday, May 23, 2004 ::
Greenpeace Prevails Against Ashcroft in Controversial Prosecution by Jim Lobe, Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - In a rebuke to the U.S. Justice Department, a federal judge in Miami Wednesday threw out a criminal case against the environmental-activist group, Greenpeace, which it had based on an obscure 1872 law against 'sailormongering' that it applied to a protest against a ship carrying 70 tons of illegally cut mahogany.
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