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VT. WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR. v. OPERATION RESCUE

No. 91-035.

617 A.2d 411 (1992)

VERMONT WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, Rachel Atkins, Jude Sullivan and Susan A. v. OPERATION RESCUE, et al.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

Motion for Reargument Denied September 3, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Schullenberger and William M. Dorsch of Mickenberg, Dunn, Sirotkin & Dorsch, Burlington, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Thomas E. McCormick of McNamara, Fitzpatrick, McCormick & Mertz, P.C., Burlington, Daniel J. Lynch of Lynch & Hadden, St. Albans, and Michael Rose (on the brief), St. Albans, for defendants-appellants.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and GIBSON, DOOLEY, MORSE and JOHNSON, JJ.

DOOLEY, Justice.

The superior court adjudged fourteen persons (defendants) in contempt for actions, protesting abortion, taken at a women's health clinic in violation of the court's temporary restraining order (TRO). The court ordered defendants to pay damages and attorneys' fees to plaintiffs, the Vermont Women's Health Center and certain of its staff members and patients, and subjected defendants to prospective coercive fines. They appeal, claiming that (1) because...

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