
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 1, 1994                   TAG: 9405120212
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                 LENGTH: Short

PENSIONERS' LAWYER TRIES AGAIN

Attorney General Jim Gilmore said a new lawsuit charging that the state violated the civil rights of illegally taxed federal pensioners is "a lawyer's gambit and an end run" around a previous suit.

Michael Kator, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court on behalf of an estimated 186,000 pensioners. He said the state was wrong in refusing to refund the pensioners' taxes.

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