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Virginia court hears arguments in Marine funeral protest case

Published 12/03/08

RICHMOND, Va. — Protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "You're going to hell" outside the funeral of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq were expressing a constitutionally protected religious viewpoint, their lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday.

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Leaders of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church are appealing a Maryland jury's decision to award the Marine's father, Albert Snyder, $5 million in damage for emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

The 2006 funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in Westminster, Md., was one of scores of military funerals that have been...

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