Legal Opinion
Roy L. Bourgeois v. Bobby Peters
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 15, 2004No. 02-16886PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs in this case are an organization called “School of the Americas Watch” (“SAW”) and several of its members, including SAW’s founder, Rev. Roy Bourgeois. The group engages in various forms of nonviolent protest, seeking to pressure the federal government to cut funding to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, better known as the “School of the Americas” (SOA). The SOA is run by the United States Army and housed at Fort Benning, Georgia. It trains military leaders from other countries throughout the Western Hemisphere in combat and…
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