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A federal appeals court has denied Chelsea Manning’s request to overturn an order finding her in contempt for refusing to testifying before a grand jury. The order, issued Monday, rejected Manning’s argument that a judge improperly denied her request to say whether she was illegally electronically surveilled after she was convicted in 2013 for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks. “Upon consideration of the memorandum briefs filed on appeal and the record of proceedings in the district court, the court finds no error in the district court’s rulings and affirms its finding of civil contempt,” the order reads. “The court also...

Anti-abortion posters are a threat, court says 05/17/2002 Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and ruled that anti-abortion activists who created Wild West-style posters and a Web site condemning abortion doctors can be held liable because their works amounted to illegal threats, not free speech. But the sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a lower-court judge to reduce the $108.5 million in punitive damages a Portland, Ore., jury awarded to four doctors who sued the abortion foes. At issue was whether the posters and Web sites violated a 1994 federal...