036: Soldier Slaves Pt. 3--Taking the Case to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S Congress

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 October 2007

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In episode 3 of a 3 part series, Jim Parkinson tells us the story of how he and his colleagues initiated a law suit on behalf of the Bataan Death March survivors, and took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and then to the U.S. Congress.

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0:00.0	Well Jimmy Cousin, we've spent an hour talking about your early life and your
0:07.5	career as an attorney. We've spent an hour talking about the Great
0:11.9	Hero pool and the other members of the greatest generation who not only
0:15.7	fought in World War II but also survived and and stand as great men and women
0:23.6	examples for all of us. Let's now talk about where you come in as a lawyer as
0:30.5	you intersect with Harold Pool and you know tells about this lawsuit how came
0:36.2	to be who are the players involved and why you think this is an important
0:41.6	story that needs to be told. Well let's begin at the beginning. The law passed
0:47.8	in 1999 that made it possible for these lawsuits to be brought against
0:51.7	Japanese corporations in California. Bill was passed by Tom Hayden, remarkably
0:57.8	enough, you know the Tom Hayden of the Jane Fonda fame. Well once that law
1:02.9	passed Lester Tenney became the first client who was brought to the mega firm
1:07.5	by Michael Goldstein. Now the mega firm did not want to have as its flag
1:13.3	ship case something that they thought they could lose so they were not
1:16.5	really interested in taking this on because people had tried to take this
1:20.5	issue before. Gone nowhere but they got some of the finest lawyers in America
1:27.0	from Greenberg, Tarrick and Pattenbogs to take a look at it and study the
1:31.8	peace treaty in 1951 and get expert witnesses to come in and tell us exactly what
1:36.8	it said and didn't say. Probably the most impressive legal mind on the whole
1:43.1	team was an attorney in Dave Casey's office by the name of Bonnie Kane. Bonnie is
1:48.9	turned out to be one of my closest friends one of the people I respect not only
1:53.5	professionally but she's one of the nicest people you'll ever you'll ever meet.
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