here on a matter of injunction. The law of injunction is
what controls here.
Back last fall, the Petitioner came before you
with a motion for temporary injunction and a motion for
permanent injunction. The temporary injunction without
notice was granted, and they requested specifically in
their injunctive relief for a permanent injunction.
The remedy which they received was awarded by
this Court imposing an injunction for a period of 180 days
starting December 2nd, 1999.
The Court admittedly reserved the power to
modify that injunction, but I anticipate that that was
because the Court predicted that problems may occur in the
enforcement of the injunction.
I am here to speak only on behalf of Robert
Minton. The Court will recall the whole reason why we were
here is because one day back on Halloween of 1999,
Mr. Minton was charged or accused of bopping another person
with a picket sign. He was acquitted of that. There have
been no further instances of this kind of conduct on the
part of Mr. Minton.
This took on a life of its own when it was
decided that because Mr. Minton had an organization that he
had founded, specifically the Lisa McPherson Trust, and
because, naturally, as a matter of law, an injunction