{"id":1225,"date":"2013-02-11T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:08:06","slug":"summary-of-pp-v-acla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Summary of PP v. ACLA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jayne Bray<\/em><\/address>\n
26 January, 2013<\/em><\/address>\n

In 1994 a band of abortionists and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the American Coalition of Life Activists [ACLA] and 14 individual anti-abortion activists.<\/p>\n

The ACLA was formed as a coalition of pro-life activists across the U.S. for the purpose of opposing abortion by LAWFUL means while refusing, as a matter of conscience, to condemn those who use other ways.<\/p>\n

Plaintiffs (PP) said they \u201cfelt threatened\u201d by ACLA\u2019s doctrine and actions.\u00a0 Those \u201cactions\u201d consisted in a few members publicizing \u201cWanted for Crimes against Humanity\u201d posters.\u00a0 (NONE of the plaintiffs, themselves, were actually on any of the posters!)\u00a0 A federal judge said that in order for a threat to have occurred, a jury only needed to find that the defendants (ACLA) \u201cought to have known\u201d that plaintiffs would \u201cfeel\u201d threatened by the posters.<\/p>\n

Michael Bray was found liable for $1 million for this association with the ACLA.\u00a0 Bray was brought into the suit because he attended an ACLA convention in Virginia where the posters were unveiled and presented to attendants as a means of advancing the message of their mission: the sanctity of human life.\u00a0 Michael Bray was not a member of the ACLA, but he was invited to the convention to sell his book, A Time to Kill<\/i>.\u00a0 \u00a0The book was freshly published and eminently relevant, addressing the historical issue of the use of force generally (wars, police, personal defense, etc.) as well as the particular protection of unborn children.\u00a0 It was ordered regularly by UCLA and the University of South Florida for a several semesters.\u00a0 (Orders ceased right after Bray disclosed that fact to PP attorneys during deposition.)<\/p>\n

The effort to collect on this debt involved hours of legal correspondence and depositions to discover assets which ultimately were found solely to be this:\u00a0 his house and his writings. \u00a0In 2007, Planned Parenthood seized these items along with his computer claiming that writings contained therein had value. \u00a0One of the officers of the law specifically inquired during the raid about any copies of the book in the house.\u00a0\u00a0 We call the seizure a \u201craid\u201d because it was done without warning.\u00a0 Up until the raid the Bray\u2019s attorney had been in regular contact with the U.S. Marshals and had promised full cooperation.\u00a0 The surprise raid was conducted with flack-jacketed and fully armed federal agents along with local police ransacking the house while Michael Bray was put under \u201chouse arrest\u201d and confined to the couch.\u00a0\u00a0 Minor children arriving home from school were traumatized by this scene.<\/p>\n

In order to collect on this debt, Ohio law requires that personal property be sold before the house can be auctioned off. \u00a0Since personal property is solely Bray\u2019s writings, these must be identified, appraised and sold before the house can be sold to take his half ownership.<\/p>\n

This is happening now.\u00a0 We are at the appraisal-of-the-writings stage .<\/p>\n

So, curiously, the very writings of Bray which PP regards to be so threatening must be advertised and sold by<\/i> PP in order to collect on the judgment.<\/p>\n

Bray shares ownership of the house with his wife, Jayne.\u00a0 Seven minors among their eleven children, still living at home will be joined with their parents in homelessness.<\/p>\n

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Jayne Bray 26 January, 2013 In 1994 a band of abortionists and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the American Coalition of Life Activists [ACLA] and 14 individual anti-abortion activists. The ACLA was formed as a coalition of pro-life activists across the U.S. for the purpose of opposing abortion by LAWFUL means while refusing, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}