Raising a holy racket; the Rev. Henry Lyons' racketeering trial this month will test how the race and religion cards play to juries

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African American Baptist minister Henry Lyons is scheduled to be tried in Jan 1999 on state charges that he used National Baptist Convention USA Incas a vehicle for racketeering in schemes to steal millions of dollars from three corporations and the Anti-Defamation League of B'na B'rith. A federal trial also awaits Lyons in mid-1999 on 54 counts of conspiracy, extortion, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering. Lyons claims that he is being pursued due to race and religion.

Analysis, Cases, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Criminal justice discrimination, Racketeering, Lyons, Henry

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Endangered again; a government effort to reintroduce predators to the wild is pitting conservationists against ranchers in a struggle for judicial intervention on nature's law for the survival of the fittest

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A pending 10th Circuit suit, Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation v. Babbitt, on a possible governmental violation of the Endangered Species Act with its reintroduction of wolves to the Yellowstone region dismayed environmentalists when the judge ruled the program illegal and ordered wolves removed from the areas. Other similar cases are pending and to those earning their living from the land predatory animals are responsible for killing their livelihoods. Doctrines of state's and property owners' rights also support their side.

Endangered species, Protection and preservation

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