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☆ Why some restaurants and bars are banning younger patrons
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Barounis says his age policy was rare back then, and some at the time questioned his decision to keep out younger customers. As Barounis sees it, the uproar over the restaurant’s age policy suggests it might have been too extreme. But the conversation around the restaurant’s unconventional age policy raises some interesting questions: To what extent can businesses dictate who their customers are? In fact, Bliss owner Marvin Pate tells CNN his positive dining experiences at adults-only resorts are what inspired his restaurant’s age policy. Marvin Pate, owner of Bliss, says his restaurant's age policy was inspired by his and his wife's experiences at adults-only resorts.

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☆ Trump has touted potential VP picks for months. He may end up picking someone off the public’s radar
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Kristen Holmes | Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —In recent weeks, an increasingly familiar list of Republicans has dominated the not-very-subtle competition to become Donald Trump’s running mate. Trump himself has added to the air of inevitability by floating these names in interviews and appearances over and over. Many around the campaign believe the lack of secrecy surrounding the open audition raises the possibility Trump ultimately picks someone off the public’s radar. A source confirmed Trump floated Cotton’s name during a recent private dinner, surprising some of his guests. Earlier this year, Hagerty was spotted at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach with the former president.

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☆ How Donald Trump has handled juries so far
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Three months ago, Donald Trump took the stand before a jury of nine in a New York courtroom without his typical bombast or ranting. “The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom,” Judge Lewis Kaplan announced, in case any jurors had missed it. “I mean, our whole case was about the fact that Donald Trump is unable to follow the law, unable to follow the rules. But just having political views about Trump, for or against, won’t be a reason for potential jurors to be dismissed. When Kaplan asked jurors a series of questions individually, Trump turned in his chair to watch each person speak.

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☆ ‘He really pushes the boundaries’: How Trump has challenged judges trying to rein him in
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —It took Donald Trump less than 24 hours to test the boundaries of Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order in his New York criminal trial. Inside the courtroom, Trump has been admonished and threatened with removal for being disruptive. Outside the courtroom, Trump has repeatedly railed against the charges he faces in front of cameras and attacked all of those involved on social media. Engoron issued a gag order on commentary about court staff that covered his clerk, fining Trump twice for breaking it. In the federal classified documents case, Trump has appeared several times before Judge Aileen Cannon, whom he appointed.

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☆ 4 takeaways from Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Allison Morrow | Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

25 years … with caveatsBankman-Fried’s 25-year sentence is about half of the 40 to 50 years prosecutors had sought. Judge Kaplan said he weighed a number of factors, including the brazenness of the crimes and Bankman-Fried’s potential to commit crimes in the future. “It haunts me every day.”Judge Kaplan appeared unmoved by parts of Bankman-Fried’s apology about customers being hurt. FTX victims are waitingJudge Kaplan roundly rejected Bankman-Fried’s argument that there was no loss to former customers of FTX because the bankruptcy estate indicated those victims are poised to recoup most of their funds. To say that FTX customers and creditors will be paid in full “is misleading, it is logically flawed, it is speculative,” Kaplan said.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Judge Kaplan, ” Kaplan, ” Mitchell Epner, Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison, ”, ” Judge Kaplan, Kaplan, “, ” Epner, FTX, John J, Ray III, Ray Organizations: New, New York CNN, Prisons, CNN, Enron Locations: New York, San Francisco, Bankman, ”

NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for a longtime advice columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggested Monday that a new defamation lawsuit was possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally. “As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll,” Kaplan said. Photos You Should See View All 60 Images“This woman is not a believable person,” Trump said Saturday. The trial judge instructed the jury that it was only to determine what damages, if any, Trump owed as a result of his 2019 statements. That jury, in awarding Carroll $5 million, also found that Trump defamed her with statements made in October 2022.

Persons: Donald Trump, Roberta Kaplan, E, Jean Carroll, ” Kaplan, didn't, ”, Carroll, Trump, Goodman, ” Trump, Democrat Trump, he'd, Al Capone, Bergdorf Goodman ”, “, Jill Covin Organizations: Republican, Trump Tower, Democrat, Trump, Carroll, Associated Locations: Rome, Georgia, Manhattan, New York, Washington

Opponents said the law had created confusion about whether teachers could identity themselves as LGBTQ+ or if they even could have rainbow stickers in classrooms. Other states used the Florida law as a template to pass prohibitions on classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation. Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn't prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. It barred instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade, and it was expanded to all grades last year. In some cases, books dealing with LGBTQ+ topics were removed from classrooms and lines mentioning sexual orientation were excised from school musicals.

Persons: it’s, “, ” Roberta Kaplan, Ron DeSantis's, couldn’t, ”, Ryan Newman, DeSantis, Kaplan, ” Kaplan, Mike Schneider Organizations: —, Florida Board, Education, Straight Alliance, Florida Gov, Republican, GOP, Florida Legislature, Dade County School Board, Walt Disney, Disney, Eleventh Circuit, Appeals Locations: ORLANDO, Fla, Florida, Alabama , Arkansas , Indiana , Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, Miami, DeSantis, Tallahassee

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who presided over the jury trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation claims against former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his rejection of his lawyer's unusual midtrial mistrial request was not a close call. Habba said a mistrial was in order because Carroll, 80, was confessing that she destroyed evidence that should have been preserved for trial. Out of the presence of the jury one day, the judge even threatened to jail her if she didn't stop talking. The $83.3 million award by the jury two weeks ago came over statements Trump made while he was president. The jury rejected Carroll's rape claim, though the judge later said what the jury found would be considered rape in other jurisdictions.

Persons: E, Jean Carroll, Donald Trump, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, Alina Habba's, Carroll, Habba, ” Kaplan, Trump, didn't, ” Habba Organizations: Trump Locations: Manhattan

☆ Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | Jamie Gangel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. E. Jean Carroll and attorney Roberta Kaplan (R) is seen leaving Manhattan Federal Court on January 26, 2024 in New York City.

Persons: Roberta Kaplan, Donald Trump, Kaplan, Jean Carroll, George Conway, Sarah Longwell, ” Roberta Kaplan Kaplan Hecker, Fink “, ” Kaplan, “, ’ ” Kaplan, Trump, Alina Habba, Alina, ”, ’, ‘, I’m, ’ ”, ‘ Robbie, Carroll —, Star Max, — Kaplan, that’s, — Organizations: CNN, Trump, “, Mar, Manhattan Federal Court, GWR, Star, Getty, Defense, eventual Locations: Mar, Lago, Manhattan, New York City

Will Trump keep that up, now that he's been hit with a $83.3 million defamation judgment? A jury on Friday found that Trump had maliciously damaged Carroll's reputation in 2019 after she went public with her accusations. If both judgments stand, Trump would owe her a total of $88.3 million. THE FIRST TRIALCarroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019, saying his statements about her were false and damaged her reputation. The $88.3 million in judgments against Trump are actually less than what some of his supporters have faced in recent defamation cases.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, Will Trump, he's, Trump, Carroll, Goodman, Jean, District Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ” Kaplan, Alina Habba, Habba, CARROLL, Rudy Giuliani, Alex Jones, Sandy, Giuliani, Jones Organizations: Trump, Elle, White, House, House . U.S, District, U.S, Supreme, TRUMP, Carroll, New, New York City, Elementary Locations: Manhattan, lacy, New York, House ., Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, That's

That verdict is still being appealed, and Trump within minutes of Friday’s verdict declared he will appeal this one as well. Carroll proved to jury she suffered harm from Trump’s defamatory statementsIt didn’t take the jury long to return a verdict against Trump, with deliberations lasting less than three hours. Trump’s attorney argued that Carroll would have received hateful messages when she wrote her story no matter what Trump said. “But President Trump should not have to pay for their threats. “You are on the verge of spending some time in the lock up, now sit down,” he said to Trump’s attorney.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, Trump, Carroll, Donald, ” Carroll, Roberta Kaplan, Joe Biden, Will Carroll, ” Trump, Boris Epshteyn, Alina Habba’s, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Shawn Crowley, “, ” Habba, ”, Judge, admonishes, Judge Kaplan, Habba, Kaplan, ” Kaplan, it’s Organizations: CNN, White, Republican, Trump, Democratic, LaGuardia Airport Locations: New York, United, American

The testy clashes have come to be expected as Trump's lawyers carry into the courtroom the bombastic, and often antagonistic, style that defines his campaign trail demeanor. There's no doubt that the lawyers, with some exceptions, have struggled to score major points with judges and in fact have often provoked their ire. Both cases have been defined by contentious exchanges between judges and Trump and his lawyers. In November, for instance, they pushed unsuccessfully for a mistrial in the fraud case, accusing Judge Arthur Engoron of “tangible and overwhelming” bias. Chutkan has repeatedly admonished Trump’s lawyers for political arguments, once telling attorney John Lauro during debate over whether restrictions could be placed on Trump's speech that though she knew he had a “message” to convey, she didn't want campaign rhetoric in court.

Persons: Alina Habba, ”, Lewis A, Kaplan, There's, Trump, “ Trump, Ty Cobb, ” Trump, E, Jean Carroll, Judge Arthur Engoron, Engoron, Christophe Kise, Kise, Habba, he’d, “, ” Kaplan, Joe Biden, ” They’ve, Biden, Tanya Chutkan, Barack Obama, Chutkan, John Lauro, Lauro, Todd Blanche, Chris Kise, Tim Parlatore, Joe Tacopina, Tacopina, — “, “ Donald Trump, Donald Trump, that’s, Aileen Cannon, Trump’s, ” Stephen Saltzburg, ___ Richer, Larry Neumeister Organizations: Trump White House, Trump, Biden, Justice Department, U.S, MSNBC, George Washington University, Associated Press Locations: New York, Washington, Atlanta, Georgia, York, Florida, Lago, Boston, Sisak

☆ Trump’s New Hampshire strategy – insults and court histrionics
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The former president publicly fulminated against Judge Lewis Kaplan as “nasty” and a “Trump-hating guy” and bucked courtroom etiquette. Trump accused Kaplan of being heartless for not suspending the trial so that he can attend the funeral of his mother-in-law. But Haley has only implicitly criticized Trump’s assault on democracy, false claims of electoral fraud and tumultuous term in office. This attitude is consistent with Trump’s apparent belief that rules that apply to other Americans don’t constrain him. “That aside, it’s just remarkable how much the former president has gotten away with in court.

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Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley complained about Trump’s audible commentary just before the first break in the trial, after the jury had been excused. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial.”Trump threw up in his hands in protest. “Now look, Ms. Habba,” Kaplan said as Habba began to read from the transcript. One major difference between this trial – a civil trial in federal court – and the Trump Org. civil fraud trial in New York state court is that Trump does not have easy access to a camera at the federal courthouse where the civil defamation trial is taking place.

Persons: Donald Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Jean Carroll, ”, Trump, Carroll, Shawn Crowley, Kaplan, Crowley, Mr, ” Kaplan, “ Mr, ” Trump, “, Judge Arthur Engoron, Engoron, Alina Habba, Elizabeth Williams, she’s, ” Carroll, Carroll’s, brutually, Habba, Michael Madaio, Madaio, there’s, ” Habba, “ We’re, What’s, where’s Trump Carroll, –, he’s, – “, He’s Organizations: CNN, Trump, Federal, New York Magazine, Twitter, Facebook, Trump Org Locations: New York, New Hampshire, Florida

That jury’s finding stemmed from statements Trump made in 2022, while the current case is dealing with statements Trump made while he was president in 2019. “Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. “Now she wants President Trump to pay for the risks she took for the way she did this,” Habba said of Carroll. “She wants President Trump to pay for the mean tweets.”Jurors are familiar with TrumpThe jury selection process provided a window into the jury panel that will decide Trump’s defamation case. None of those prospective jurors were ultimately selected to the trial jury.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, –, Trump, Carroll, Shawn Crowley, “ Donald Trump, ” Crowley, Jean Carroll's, CNN Crowley, “, “ Trump, Carroll “, Alina Habba, Habba, ” Carroll, ” Habba, Joe Biden, they’d, Biden, “ You’re, Lewis Kaplan, What’s, Billy Bush, she’s, Kaplan, ” Kaplan Organizations: New, New York CNN, Trump, CNN, Southern, of, Carroll Locations: New York, Coast, New Hampshire, Manhattan, of New York, Trump

☆ Maker of Wegovy, Ozempic showers money on U.S. obesity doctors
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +23 min

Novo spent at least $25.8 million over the past decade on U.S. medical professionals to promote its two obesity drugs, Wegovy and Saxenda, the analysis found. Jastreboff has also worked on clinical trials of obesity drugs for Eli Lilly, which markets a Wegovy competitor. Some doctors said Novo’s payments exemplify how the flood of industry money can dominate decision-making about care and coverage. Government pharmacy officer Solaru said her agency concluded that the new obesity drugs could be cost-effective by preventing other weight-related diseases and boosting workplace productivity. In January, the personnel office told its health plans they must cover at least one GLP-1 obesity drug for 8 million workers, retirees and family members.

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NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testified at his New York trial on Friday, denying that he defrauded anyone but acknowledging that the innovative business he had hoped would move the cryptocurrency ecosystem forward ended up hurting customers instead. “It turned out basically the opposite of that,” and a lot of customers and others got hurt, Bankman-Fried said. After the jury was sent home Thursday, Bankman-Fried testified in front of the judge about his communications with lawyers as he built his cryptocurrency empire. The executives testified that Bankman-Fried directed them to spend billions of dollars taken from the accounts of FTX customers and funneled through Alameda Research, a hedge fund he started in 2017, two years before he created the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. ___For more AP coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX: https://apnews.com/hub/sam-bankman-fried

Persons: — FTX, Sam Bankman, Fried, Mark Cohen, “, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ” Kaplan Organizations: Prosecutors, Alameda Research Locations: York, Manhattan, California, Bahamas, Bankman, New York, Palo Alto , California, Alameda

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn’t try years ago to use a claim of absolute presidential immunity to shield him from a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexual assault. He also insisted that absolute presidential immunity was a protection that cannot be surrendered by Trump or any other president. Kahn asked Madaio later in the arguments why absolute presidential immunity was not asserted sooner. In the spring, a Manhattan federal court jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, but it rejected her claim that he raped her. Trump is the early front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Persons: Donald Trump didn’t, Trump, E, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Maria Araujo Kahn, Denny Chin, Michael Madaio, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ” Kaplan, Chin, Judge Kaplan, it’s, ” Madaio, Kahn, Madaio Organizations: —, U.S, Circuit, Trump Locations: Manhattan, New York

Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas a month later. Singh pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to testify against the man he'd known since high school. Singh said he had little influence over Bankman-Fried. “I can’t have lawyers coming in and giving drugs to people on trial because somebody says they need it. ___For more AP coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX: https://apnews.com/hub/sam-bankman-fried

Persons: —, Sam Bankman, “ blindsided, ” Nishad Singh, Fried, Singh, “, ”, he'd, ” Singh, Jeff Bezos, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Brady, Larry David, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ” Kaplan Organizations: Bankman, Alameda Research, FTX, Amazon, Miami Heat, Major League Baseball Locations: FTX, Bankman, Bahamas, Manhattan, Palo Alto , California, San Francisco, California, Miami

☆ Why Wall Street investors are freaking out
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Here’s why investors are freaking out:Rates and the Fed: A surge in corporate debt sales and rising bond yields have sent stocks lower. Moody’s, the only major credit rating firm to keep a perfect score for the United States, has warned that a government shutdown would be “credit negative” for the United States. Geopolitical risks are still elevated as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues and relations between the United States and China remain tense. October also marks the end of the fiscal year for many mutual funds in the United States. Statistical evidence doesn’t quite support the phenomenon, but the level of superstitious caution on Wall Street is real.

Persons: Kevin McCarthy, ”, Michael Reinking, Mark Twain, ” Sam Bankman, Sam Bankman, Allison Morrow, Judge Lewis Kaplan, “, ” Kaplan, SFB, SBF, Caroline Ellison, Bernie Madoff, Chris Isidore, Vanessa Yurkevich Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, Dow, Federal Reserve, Fed, Markets, Republicans, “, Prosecutors, GM, Ford, Motors, United Auto Workers, Michigan Assembly, Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, UAW Locations: New York, America’s Congress, United States, Ukraine, China, Manhattan, Fairfax, Kansas City , Kansas, Toledo, Lockport, Michigan, Wayne , Michigan, Kokomo , Indiana

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial has started. Here’s what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, a onetime crypto billionaire who stands accused of orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud, kicked off Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. Here are the key things to know about the case, and what we might see over the next several weeks at the trial. Prosecutors opted in June to sever five other charges that were brought after Bankman-Fried’s extradition from the Bahamas, where FTX was based. Sam Bankman-Fried leaving the Bahamas on December 21, 2022, being extradited to the US to face charges. He was arrested in December in the Bahamas on charges including fraud and conspiracy and extradited to the United States in January.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Judge Lewis Kaplan, ”, “, ” Kaplan, SFB, SBF, Caroline Ellison, Bernie Madoff, FTX, Tom Brady, Larry David, Fried, Bankman, Ellison, Howard Fischer, Moses Singer, Fischer, Lewis Kaplan, he’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Prosecutors, Alameda Research, Super, Royal Bahamas Police Force, Investors, Bankman, Coindesk, Alameda, New York Times, Securities and Exchange, Enron, Metropolitan Detention Locations: New York, Manhattan, FTX, Bahamas, Miami, Alameda, United States, Brooklyn

☆ DOJ no longer believes Trump should have immunity from Carroll defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That essentially meant that the Justice Department would be substituted as a defendant and the case would likely be dismissed. Trump’s and Carroll’s lawyers will also have an opportunity to weigh in. In light of the developments, the Justice Department said its position had changed. “And a jury has now found that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted Ms. Carroll long before he became President. That history supports an inference that Mr. Trump was motivated by a ‘personal grievance’ stemming from events that occurred many years prior to Mr. Trump’s presidency,” the Justice Department wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll’s, Carroll, Trump, Carroll II, Trump’s, couldn’t, Roberta Kaplan, ”, ” Kaplan Organizations: CNN, The Justice, Trump, Department, Biden, Justice Department, DOJ, Justice, United States Government, Department of Justice Locations: Washington, York, United States

☆ What E. Jean Carroll had to prove to win her case against Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Carroll receiving a monetary award from this trial hinged on whether the jury unanimously believed her claims against Trump. “For E. Jean Carroll this lawsuit is not about the money,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said during closing arguments on Monday. Trump appears the most agitated on the video when he denies Carroll’s rape allegation. Two friends that Carroll testified she told soon after the alleged rape testified about their recollection of Carroll’s account in 1996. Tacopina in his closing argument Monday also accused Carroll of fabricating her rape allegations to sell her book.

☆ Closing arguments set for Monday morning in E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial against Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump are set to give closing arguments Monday morning in the battery and defamation trial against the former president in Manhattan federal court. Carroll’s legal team put on 11 witnesses in her case including the writer herself over seven trial days. “He has a right to testify which has been waived but if he has second thoughts, I’ll at least consider it and maybe we’ll see what happens,” Kaplan told the attorneys. Trump, who has not appeared in the courtroom at any point during the trial, told reporters in Ireland on Thursday he’ll “probably attend” the trial. No such motion was made by the deadline Sunday and his attorneys confirmed he will not attend the trial.

☆ The Janes 1960s underground abortion network
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +28 min

The group was officially created in 1969 as the “Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation.”But after running ads in an underground newspaper: “Pregnant? “It wasn’t just abortion,” Barron explained. “Vacuum aspiration was much easier to do, and I think it’s less difficult for the woman,” Scott said. We had to keep the service running.”Laura Kaplan volunteered for the Janes, later immortalizing the group in her book, "The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service." Each Jane was charged with 11 counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion, with a possible sentence of up to 110 years in prison.

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