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Article: Firestone Tire Pretrial to Begin.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- November 16, 2000
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Nov. 17--WASHINGTON--Even before scores of Firestone tire lawsuits landed on her bench, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker had proved she was no pushover.
The 57-year-old judge, a 1984 appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, recently ordered U.S. marshals to seize, by force if necessary, the Indianapolis Baptist Temple because its minister had refused to withhold Social Security and federal taxes from employees for more than a decade.
She also blocked a six-ton tribute to the Ten Commandments from being erected this month on the lawn of Indiana's statehouse. And she threatened Lawrence County officials with contempt when they put the seven-foot ...