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Ottawa told to foot store's legal bills

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Globe and Mail
July 2, 2004

Vancouver gay bookstore challenged customs' power to seize, censor material

A B.C. judge has ordered the federal government to pay a small Vancouver gay bookstore hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a constitutional challenge to the power of Canadian customs to seize and censor imported material.

The advance order for the payment to Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium is the first application of a