May Toronto Robert Taylor, owner of […]

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1981-05

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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 Baths Toronto

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Rick Stenhouse Jerry Levy Don Banks Jack Ackroyd Robert Taylor

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Club Baths Police 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

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Don Banks

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