The State - News from July 24, 1987
Pacific Lumber Co. sued 13 environmental protesters who staged a sit-in at a company log yard last May. The action, filed in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeks to recoup $22,670 in overtime pay and other costs incurred during the protest by the Earth First! movement, during which demonstrators reportedly climbed atop piles of logs, forcing mill operations to a halt. “We just decided that no person or group of persons should put what they believe above private property rights or above the law,” said Pacific Lumber spokesman David Galitz.
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