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Forest picket-line wasn't false imprisonment: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Victoria has dismissed claims by anti-logging protesters that they were falsely imprisoned by the CFMEU (forestry division) and logging workers during a confrontation in the Otways rainforest in early 1999, but has awarded the protesters more than $130,000 damages for their more minor claims.

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