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May Toronto Robert Taylor, owner of […]

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1981-05

Description

May Toronto Robert Taylor, owner of the Romans II Sauna (742 Bay Street), filed suit against sixty-nine police officers, as well as Chief Jack Ackroyd and Inspector Don Banks of the Police Intelligence section, for damages incurred during the February 5 raid on the Romans. Taylor claimed that officers did about $10,000 damage to about a hundred of the 174 rooms at the sauna. Jerry Levy and Rick Stenhouse, directors of the Club Baths, also filed damage claims in small claims court for damage sustained by the Club Baths during the bath raids.

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The Club BathsToronto

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Rick StenhouseJerry LevyDon BanksJack AckroydRobert Taylor

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Club BathsPolice Intelligence Bureau (Toronto)

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Donald Ramsay, "Cops Sued for Bathhouse Damages," Toronto Sun, 12 May 1981, p. 36.Gerald Hannon, Fay Orr, Ken Popert, and Eric Walberg, "Street Patrols, Lawsuits, Boycotts: Countering Attacks on All Fronts," Body Politic, no. 74 (1981), p. 13