The racketeering lawsuit filed against the carpenters' union by the Pennsylvania Convention Center is a "public relations stunt dressed as a federal lawsuit," the union said in its motion to dismiss, filed Tuesday. The carpenters' motion is the latest salvo in the multi-pronged dispute between the Convention Center and the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters, which lost the right to work in the building in May 2014 and has been protesting, leafletting and litigating since then. A year later, on May 7, the Convention Center filed a federal racketeering RICO lawsuit against the union, accusing it of "prolonged and coordinated violent, illegal, and extortionate conduct," and demanding...
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