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A coalition of abortion protesters in Portland, Oregon, has been ordered by a jury of four men and four women to pay $107.9m (£67.4m) in damages to Planned Parenthood, the Portland Feminist Women's Health Center, and a group of doctors.
The identities of the jurors in the federal court were shielded amid tight security. The doctors had filed a civil lawsuit because of threats made against them on an internet website called "the Nuremberg Files" and by "Deadly Dozen" wanted posters containing their names and addresses (23January, p 214). Dr James Reardon, president elect of the American Medical Association, was among those...