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- In 1993, Rik Scarce, while a doctoral student at Washington State University, spent five months in jail on a federal contempt-of-court charge rather than reveal details of his research interviews with “earth liberation” activists.
www.chronicle.com/article/our-storehouse-of-knowledge-about-social-movements-is-going-to-be-left-bare/5 Minutes With a Sociologist, Jailed for Refusing to Divulge ...
Nov 2, 1993 · 11/02/1993. WASHINGTON — In mid-October, Judge Wm. Fremming Nielsen of the U.S. District Court in Spokane ordered the release of Rik Scarce, a sociologist jailed since mid-May for refusing to answer grand jury questions about the animal liberation movement.
Jul 14, 1993 · The U.S. attorney's office has said the grand jury wants Scarce to testify about conversations he had with Rodney Coronado, a reputed leader of the Animal Liberation Front, who was house-sitting...
Sep 29, 1993 · Sociologist Rik Scarce has been held in contempt of court by U.S. District Court Judge W. Fremming Nielsen for his refusal to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating petit terrorism of...
In 1993 Rik Scarce was imprisoned for contempt of court in Spokane, Washington. For five months he refused to testify to a federal grand jury about his interviews with animal rights activists after they had broken into a research laboratory, and his story made headlines in numerous newspapers.
The latter is particularly important to me because, in 1993, I was jailed for more than five months on a contempt of court citation after I refused to fully cooperate with a federal grand jury. The grand jury was investigating an Animal Liberation Front break-in at the university where I was studying for my Ph.D.
May 26, 1993 · May 26, 1993. In a case that tests whether scholars can promise confidentiality to research subjects, a sociologist has been jailed on a charge of contempt of court. At a hearing this month, Rik...
