National Review reported on HLLI’s potential lawsuits against organizations that engaged in anti-Israel protests that blocked traffic.
In December, the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggested using “creative class actions” to hit mobs of anti-Israel protesters “in their pocketbooks.” Lawyers with the free-market Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute are exploring legal action against the organizers of well-planned protests that blocked highways and bridges in major cities. Ned Hedley, a lawyer with the institute, told National Review that there haven’t been strong enough deterrence efforts from government leaders and law enforcement in many Democratically controlled jurisdictions.
“If the police and the district attorneys are not going to aggressively prosecute and counter this type of behavior and this conduct, which puts people at risk, then perhaps a civil lawsuit, a class action . . . might work as an effective deterrent,” Hedley said.
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