The misinterpretation has also prevented foreign aid recipients from offering abortion information even though a separate 1994 amendment makes clear that providing information does not amount to improper coercion.
Larry Gold, associate general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said some of the recent employer letters, by hinting at the possible loss of employees' jobs, appeared to cross the line into improper coercion.
The court further finds and concludes the evidence does not establish any illegality, dishonesty, gross negligence, improper influence, coercion or fraud in the balloting and counting processes.
This is especially true here, where, as in Beckstrom, the trial judge found no dishonesty, gross negligence, improper influence, coercion or fraud in the balloting and counting processes.
"The evidence does not establish any illegality, dishonesty, gross negligence, improper influence, coercion or fraud in the balloting and counting processes," Judge Sauls said.
At the outset, I note that, after an evidentiary hearing, the trial court expressly found no dishonesty, gross negligence, improper influence, coercion or fraud in the balloting and counting processes based upon the evidence presented.
"Your claims to the court, through counsel, to the effect that your guilty plea resulted from improper pressure or coercion, or that you did not, as a legal matter, know what you were doing when you pled guilty, do not appear credible," the panel said.
She also said she was unsurprised that this petition campaign, like others tried so far in Compton, Adelanto and elsewhere, had sparked controversy and allegations on both sides of coercion, teacher union pressure and improper promises of gifts to sign or rescind signatures.
B5 Terror Suspect Asserts Abuse Lawyers for Wadih el-Hage, a suspect in the bombing of two American embassies, say prosecutors are using a "pattern of coercion and intimidation" against potential defense witnesses through improper use of the grand jury and other tactics.
Lawyers for a suspect in a terrorism case involving the bombing of two United States embassies have accused federal prosecutors of employing a "pattern of coercion and intimidation" against at least eight potential defense witnesses through improper use of the grand jury and other tactics.
Bauer invariably chooses coercion.
