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1 Apr 2010, 8:40 am by John Bratt
Snyder sued the Westboro Baptist Church and got an 11 million dollar verdict. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 4:31 pm
The Westboro Baptist Church is at it again. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 3:03 pm
FRED PHELPS, Westboro Baptist Church: By your proud sin, America, you have imperiled your soldiers. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 10:18 am by The LBN Team
" Westboro Baptist Church, which had threatened to protest outside Green's funeral, has agreed not to do so in exchange for radio airtime in Canada and Arizona. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 12:45 pm
On February 16, the freewheeling hacker collective decided to take on the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, best known for its "God Hates Fags" protests. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 9:20 am
Westboro Church Protests Head To Supreme Court [Huffington Post] Court to rule on funeral pickets [SCOTUSblog] Westboro Baptist Church - Supreme Court - Fred Phelps - United States - Hate [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 11:48 am by David Han
Phelps case, where the family of a marine who had died while serving in Iraq sued the Westboro Baptist Church for IIED after it had picketed the marine's funeral. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 8:11 am
According to Margie Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist Church, "And it’s our duty as the church of the Lord, Jesus Christ, to come to the scene and remind people of their duty to God, so that’s why we’re coming," WBC wrote on their website “Scott Anderson has no hope of heaven, and you know it. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 5:28 am
A member of Westboro Baptist Church protests at a veterans' hospital in Virginia. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 10:36 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The AP reports:North Dakota high school students trying to create publicity for their school play sent messages to a Kansas-based fundamentalist church known for its anti-gay protests, hoping Westboro Baptist Church members would announce plans to picket the production....But Fargo police said they were told Wednesday by church members that they would not protest Fargo South High School’s production Sunday of “The Laramie Project,” a play about the killing… [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Westboro members often picket funerals of veterans carrying signs proclaiming that God is punishing America for its sins, which include tolerating homosexuality. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The court rejected the argument that all the signs carried by Westboro members are unprotected "fighting words. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 3:20 pm
Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church were within their First Amendment rights to protest at the funeral of Lance Cpl. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 7:37 am
Phelps case is a classic battle of First Amendment rights vs. individual privacy, sparked by an emotionally-charged protest by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., at the funeral of a U.S. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 10:29 am
This sort of creative counter-activist judo has promise as a means of repelling other odious characters, not just Westboro. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 10:19 am by Nancy Rapoport
  I'm glad that there are people out there countering the Westboro Baptist Church speakers (see here). [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:57 am
A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday awarded $10.9 million in damages in the civil lawsuit against the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church and its leaders who had been sued over their picketing of the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 8:07 am by Jessica Smith
No doubt in response to funeral protests by groups like Westboro Baptist Church, in 2006 NC amended its disorderly conduct statute, G.S. 14-288.4, adding a provision prohibiting disorderly conduct at a funeral. [read post]
31 May 2010, 11:18 am
And ABCNews.com reports that "States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief; Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church Picketed Iraq Marine's Funeral; Court Must Decide if Protest Was Free Speech. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 9:05 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
Reverend Fred Phelps and members of the Westboro Baptist Church [church website; JURIST news archive] have been [read post]