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Group sues supremacists for damages
by NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Southern Poverty Law Center is attempting to bankrupt an Idaho-based hate group called the Aryan Nations., The civil rights group is arguing in court that the white supremacist group should be held responsible for a 1998 incident in wh
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If the SPLC wins, the hate group -- which calls non-whites "mud people," Jews "children of Satan" and includes Granada Hills JCC alleged shooter Buford Furrow Jr. as a member -- would be bankrupted and have to cede control of their compound.
The trend to sue for civil damages began in 1990, when an Oregon jury rendered the Anti-Defamation League and the SPLC a $12.5 million judgement against Tom Metzger of California for inciting the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant.
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