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March 11, 2009 News & Features » Cover Story

Out for Justice 

Al Bowers says Doug Wilder tried to run him out of business. Two years and a $205 million lawsuit later, he now wants his day in court.

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Al Bowers remembers falling to the floor, absorbing the blows — rapid-fire punches and knifing kicks to the ribs, legs and the back of the head. In 1960, he was 12 years old, an incoming freshman at West End High School in…

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