"A ruling involving anti-abortion protesters last month in the U.S. Supreme Court is having a ripple effect in an organized crime case in New York. A federal judge in Brooklyn threw out some extortion charges against Vincent 'the Chin' Gigante and several other men connected to the Genovese family after the high court ruled that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act could not be used against anti-abortion protesters in a civil suit," the ABA Journal reports here.