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  Slave Descendants Seek $1.4 Trillion in Reparations from Fleetboston, Others Farmer-paellmann v. Fleetboston Fin. Corp. 7 Andrews' Bank & Lender Liability Litigation Reporter Rep. 4 (4/4/2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A class action lawsuit filed on March 26 in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court seeks damages of as much as $1.4 trillion from FleetBoston Financial Corporation and two other major U.S. companies that allegedly profited from slavery more than 137 years ago. The plaintiff class would be made up of millions of black Americans whose ancestors were slaves... 2002 Most Relevant
  Slave Descendants Seek $1.4 Trillion in Reparations from Fleetboston, Others Slavery Reparations 12 Andrews Insurance Coverage Litigation Report 13 (4/5/2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A class action lawsuit filed on March 26 in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court seeks damages of as much as $1.4 trillion from FleetBoston Financial Corporation and two other major U.S. companies that allegedly profited from slavery more than 137 years ago. The plaintiff class would be made up of millions of black Americans whose ancestors were slaves... 2002 Most Relevant
Andrew Brownstein Suits Bring Debate over Slavery Reparations into the Courtroom 38-DEC Trial 68 (December, 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Under normal circumstances, four suits brought recently against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., and other corporate giants would not have caused the companies significant alarm. The cases had the sort of elements defense lawyers love: alleged actions more than a hundred years old; no living witnesses or victims... 2002 Most Relevant
Harry N. Scheiber Taking Responsibility: Moral and Historical Perspectives on the Japanese War-reparations Issues 20 Berkeley Journal of International Law 233 (2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A disturbing aspect of today's lawsuits and public controversies over World War II reparations claims by individuals and groups who suffered from war crimes is the fact that the issue has come to a climax only now--more than half a century after the war's end, and at a time when the people who indisputably were innocent victims of those crimes are... 2002 Most Relevant
Ryan Michael Spitzer The African Holocaust: Should Europe Pay Reparations to Africa for Colonialism and Slavery? 35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1313 (October, 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   For many people of European descent, slavery is little more than an unpleasant memory of a bygone and distant era, largely remembered more for the glory of empires lost and faded dreams of conquest and exploration. For many Africans and African Americans, however, slavery remains an unhealed wound that is frequently, if not constantly, reopened by... 2002 Most Relevant
DAVID J. TREVINO The Currency of Reparations: Affirmative Action in College Admissions 4 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 439 (Spring 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Prologue-Ignacious and Reilly. 440 II. Introduction-What Position Do Minorities Occupy in the Social, Political, and Educational Strata?. 441 III. Hopwood v. Texas-The Decline of Bakke. 442 IV. Doctrinal Framework-Basic Information and Background. 445 V. Bakke-The Genesis of Racial Diversity as a Compelling Governmental Interest. 449 VI. Gratz &... 2002 Most Relevant
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro The Development of the Movement for Reparations for African Descendants 3 Journal of Law in Society 133 (Winter, 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The current movement for reparations for African descendants in the United States has its roots in the enslavement of African peoples. This demand for reparations has its ebbs and tides in terms of the numbers actively supporting it. There was a peak in the movement in the 1890s, resulting in the formation of the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty &... 2002 Most Relevant
Lindsay Glauner The Need for Accountability and Reparation: 1830-1976 the United States Government's Role in the Promotion, Implementation, and Execution of the Crime of Genocide Against Native Americans 51 DePaul Law Review 911 (Spring 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness; it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy; it's indifference. The opposite of life is not death; it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel. On September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian... 2002 Most Relevant
Alfred L. Brophy The World of Reparations: Slavery Reparations in Historical Perspective 3 Journal of Law in Society 105 (Winter, 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   We are hearing a lot about the case for reparations these daysreparations for Japanese-Americans interned by the United States during World War II, victims of the Nazi holocaust, Native American property losses. We are also hearing about many forms of reparationsdirect cash payments, apologies, truth commissions. And now we are hearing much about... 2002 Most Relevant
Michelle E. Lyons World Conference Against Racism: New Avenues for Slavery Reparations? 35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1235 (October, 2002) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The reparations movement has had a long and tumultuous history, as past attempts to obtain equitable relief have failed through common law, international law, legislation, and constitutional law. However, recent developments in these areas have pushed the reparations movement to the forefront. For example, Farmer-Paellmann v. Fleetboston Financial... 2002 Most Relevant
  Notice of Motion and Motion of Plaintiff for Request and Order for Judicial Notice of Citizenship Not Verified; Memorandum and Declaration; Reparations and Repatriation (4/23/2002) Trial Court Documents   Federal Rules of Evidence Manuel,Article II, judicial Notice. Rule 201. Chief Judge: Robert Holmes Bell Plaintiff's Plea To no jurisdiction Based On The International Law Crime / Treaty... 2002 Most Relevant
Lee A. Harris Political Autonomy as a Form of Reparations to African-americans 29 Southern University Law Review 25 (Fall 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. INTRODUCTION For good reason, there has been little writing on reparations for African-Americans. After all, the notion of African-Americans receiving payment in cash is preposterous ; the argument for affirmative action as a form of reparations for African-Americans--an argument for payment in kind--is unconstitutional ; and, the idea of... 2001 Most Relevant
Natasha Parassram Concepcion Reparations for African-americans 8 Human Rights Brief 16 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The issue of paying reparations to descendants of African-American slaves has been a controversial one within the United States. As reported in Volume 7, Issue 3 of the Human Rights Brief, Professor Adrienne Davis, a member of the Reparations Litigation Committee established by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA),... 2001 Most Relevant
Joseph P. Nearey Seeking Reparations in the New Millennium: Will Japan Compensate the "Comfort Women" of World War Ii? 15 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 121 (Spring 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The Japanese government faces great condemnation for its failure to make any significant reparations to the women it forced into sexual slavery during the Second World War. The Japanese Imperial Army forced an estimated 200,000 women, primarily from the countries of China, Korea, and the Philippines, to serve as comfort women for the army from... 2001 Most Relevant
Menachem Z. Rosensaft , Joana D. Rosensaft The Early History of German-jewish Reparations 25 Fordham International Law Journal L.J. 1 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The tremendous catastrophe that befell European Jewry during the Holocaust is universally recognized as immeasurable in scope. Millions were murdered, thousands of Jewish communities were decimated, and at the end of the Second World War, several hundred thousand surviving Jews had become homeless refugees, or Displaced Persons (DPs). In addition... 2001 Most Relevant
Darcie L. Christopher Jus Cogens, Reparation Agreements, and Holocaust Slave Labor Litigation 31 Law and Policy in International Business 1227 (Summer, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Note discusses several issues involved in litigation concerning gross human rights violations. Specifically, it addresses human rights violations so serious they are included among those violations viewed as jus cogens: peremptory norms of international law from which no derogation is permitted. Two recent decisions in the District Court for... 2000 Most Relevant
Anthony E. Cook King and the Beloved Community: a Communitarian Defense of Black Reparations 68 George Washington Law Review 959 (July/September,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Much to the surprise and dismay of many, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated that America pay reparations to black Americans for the unpaid wages of slavery. This paper argues that King's call for reparations is wholly consistent with his conception of a Beloved Community, a socio-spiritual vision of a transformed America. As a communitarian who... 2000 Most Relevant
Harold S. Peckron Reparation Payments--an Exclusion Revisited 34 University of San Francisco Law Review 705 (Summer 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The spectre, or ghost, is one of the protagonists of our age. A ghost is always in between, neither wholly alive nor wholly dead. It haunts our memory today, yet it is past. IT HAUNTS OUR memory . . . yet it is past. This phrase aptly describes the nature of reparation payments. Generally, these payments have been made to the survivors of... 2000 Most Relevant
Milner S. Ball Reparations and Repentance: a Response to Professor Cook 68 George Washington Law Review 1015 (July/September,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Professor Anthony Cook is well-known as an interpreter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of the several themes that he pursues in his symposium offering, one that lies at the heart of his article is the welcome reminder that Dr. King's work and vision were singular. Professor Cook thoughtfully proposes that Dr. King engaged in dialogue with both... 2000 Most Relevant
Donald Aquinas Lancaster, Jr. The Alchemy and Legacy of the United States of America's Sanction of Slavery and Segregation: a Property Law and Equitable Remedy Analysis of African American Reparations 43 Howard Law Journal 171 (Winter 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In the early to mid-1800s in Randolph County, Alabama, a brother and sister are slaves. Ruben, date of birth unknown, and Maryann, born in 1850, are the ancestors to generations of the Lancaster clan. Ruben, with wife Lydia, would sire one child, Henry Lancaster, on the eve of emancipation. Henry would beget 19 children with his wife Charlotte... 2000 Most Relevant
Anthony Gifford The Legal Basis of the Claim for Slavery Reparations 27-SPG Human Rights 16 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Reparation, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, means the action of making amends for a wrong done; amends; compensation. In international law, it means that when a country has committed an international crime such as the invasion of another country or the genocide of a people, it must make amends to the victims, including the... 2000 Most Relevant
ART ALCAUSIN HALL There Is a Lot to Be Repaired Before We Get to Reparations: a Critique of the Underlying Issues of Race That Impact the Fate of African American Reparations 2 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 1 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 2 II. Background. 11 A. Reparations in the United States: Native Americans. 13 B. Reparations in the United States: Japanese Americans. 14 C. Reparations in Germany. 16 D. History of African American Reparations. 17 E. Present Efforts Toward African American Reparations: Congress and the Courts. 19 III. White America. 22 A. Lack of... 2000 Most Relevant
W. Burlette Carter True Reparations 68 George Washington Law Review 1021 (July/September,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Not surprisingly, Professor Anthony Cook delivers a provocative piece, one that follows the tradition of his other scholarship illuminating the world of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also joins a number of notable African American commentators, including U.S. Representative John Conyers and Randall Robinson, President of TransAfrica, in advocating... 2000 Most Relevant
Mark D. Myers When Sorry Isn't Enough: the Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. Edited by Roy L. Brooks, New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. Xx, 513. $22.95 (Paper). 36 Stanford Journal of International Law 187 (Winter 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This work very ambitiously takes on the subject of apologies and reparations for atrocities. Even limiting the subjects covered, as Brooks does, to a few better-known instances of atrocities for which a serious effort at apologies and/or reparations has been made, this subject area could easily fill an entirebookshelf, if not a small library.... 2000 Most Relevant
Shari Heather Motro When Sorry Isn't Enough: the Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. Edited by Roy L. Brooks. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. Xx, 536. $60.00 (Cloth), $22.95 (Paper). 32 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 830 (Spring 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   My ambition, writes editor Roy L. Brooks in his preface to When Sorry Isn't Enough, is to provide readers with an intellectual and informational foundation to understand the controversy over redressing human injustice and to pursue on their own further investigation into the ugly side of human nature. But the book's title reveals his goals more... 2000 Most Relevant
Saul Levmore Changes, Anticipations, and Reparations 99 Columbia Law Review 1657 (November, 1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Conventional views of legal change emphasize the values of certainty and reliance, and are therefore hostile to explicitly retroactive laws. Contemporary scholarship, however, allows that a policy of aggressive legal change, with no compensation for new losers, can encourage socially useful steps in anticipation of change. Professor Levmore... 1999 Most Relevant
  Holocaust Survivors File Suits Against German and Austrian Banks in Sd Ny Holocaust Reparations 8 Andrews Insurance Coverage Litigation Report 234 (3/19/1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Alleging forced slave labor and illegal conversion of assets, survivors of Nazi Germany's holocaust have filed two proposed class actions in New York federal court seeking reparations and damages from several German and Austrian banks. Elkan et al. v. Creditanstalt AG et al., No. 99-CV-0387 (SD NY, complaint filed Jan. 15, 1999); Duveen v. Deutsche... 1999 Most Relevant
Tuneen E. Chisolm Sweep Around Your Own Front Door: Examining the Argument for Legislative African American Reparations 147 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 677 (January, 1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   As a world leader emphasizing the need for international relations grounded upon democracy and human rights, the United States has yet to face the dilemma of how to deal with its own past and its most egregious historical injustices, an obvious example being the legacy of slavery. The current state of race relations in America is charged with... 1999 Most Relevant
Melissa Cole The Color-blind Constitution, Civil Rights-talk, and a Multicultural Discourse for a Post-reparations World 25 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 127 (1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   People keep telling me that this is historic. I guess it is historic in that we're starting this new age of post-affirmative action. But I don't think it's nearly as much an act compared to the people before me who broke the color barriers the first time. Eric Brooks, Boalt Hall, Class of 2000 On November 5, 1996, California voters approved... 1999 Most Relevant
Robert Westley Many Billions Gone: Is it Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations? 40 Boston College Law Review 429 (December, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   For each beloved hour, sharp pittances of years. Bitter contested farthings and coffers heaped with tears. Affirmative action for Black Americans as a form of remediation for perpetuation of past injustice is almost dead. Due to a string of Supreme Court decisions beginning with Bakke and leading up to Adarand, the future possibility of using... 1998 Most Relevant
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