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Gag Her with an Injunction.(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  April, 2000  by KIRTLEY, JANE

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An Alaska school superintendent asks a court to silence his arch-critic.

Bob Christal, the school superintendent for Anchorage, Alaska, must have been as mad as a Kodiak bear who's being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. A one-term member of the Anchorage School Board named Theresa Obermeyer had been badmouthing him for years, starting shortly after she lost her bid for re-election in 1994.

Obermeyer accused Christal of committing a variety of unethical and criminal acts, including perjury and bribery, in connection with a school construction project. She complained, loudly, at ...

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