Re: reparation
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Originally posted by strandinthewind
Of interest from cnn.com
Slave reparations case dismissed
Judge protects right to amend, refile claim
Monday, January 26, 2004 Posted: 2:16 PM EST (1916 GMT)
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves against corporations they say profited from slavery, saying the plaintiffs had established no clear link to the companies they targeted.
Full article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/0....ap/index.html
Again, I do not get how anyone can be later held financially liable for doing a legal act - hence the U.S. Cont.'s prohibition of ex post facto laws. But, others see it differently and think the wrongness of the legal act supercedes its legality. So, the courts will decide.
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Yes. I don't see how you can hold someone responsible for something that at the time was a legal act. While I can understand the sense of wrongness in the "legal" act, there is a very real reason that our Constitution prohibits such ex post facto laws. If the right to an abortion would ever be outlawed in the future, that would be like charging someone with murder for having an abortion now.
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