Damages Seeked and Speech Rights Issue

Women who sent a threatening letter to her doctor on her practice and contends to having experienced "an unlawful chilling effect" on her free speech and religious rights.
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sued Dillard under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The government's lawsuit seeks a court order permanently prohibiting Dillard from contacting Means or coming within 250 feet of the doctor, her home, car or business. It also seeks damages of $5,000 for the doctor and a penalty of $15,000.
Contributor: Kunal Kohli
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43064742/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Controversy over the Air France wreckage

Two years ago an Air France jet disappeared during high-altitude thunderstorms near the equator over the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. Of the 228 passengers and crew on board there were only 50 bodies found. There have been considerable amount of effort put into finding the wreckage so as to find the remaining black boxes to discover what went wrong with the Flight 447. In March 2011, two years and 4 attempts later, the wreckage has been found along with some of the dead. Fortunately for recovery purposes it has been found in a flat section of the ocean not the previously believed mountainous terrain that is common of the area.

The controversy now is the process of retrieving the bodies from their watery grave. Within the past week two bodies have been recovered. One body was still attached to its seat. The controversy is over whether or not to retrieve the bodies at all. For the technical side of the issue it is a long, hard and pricey project to retrieve the unknown amounts of body from under water, but on the other hand many feel that they have a moral obligation to make the effort. For the family and friends of the victims there is another split. Some are worried about the damage that the bodies will incur when being retrieved by robots and feel that there is greater dignity in their death if they are left in the water where they died. For others, who had previously accepted the fact that their loved ones would never be found, are taking comfort in the fact that they are now able to bury their loved ones nearby.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-10-air-france-bodies-recovery_n.htm

Man is falsly imprisoned and is denied compensation.

Anthony Graves spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was accused of slayings of a grandmother and five children in 1992. "The state comptroller refused to pay Graves the $80,000 for each year of wrongful imprisonment provided by law because the order dismissing the capital murder charges did not contain the words "actual innocence," as the statute requires."
"Graves has sued the attorney general, asking for a declaration of actual innocence, but [Attorney General Greg] Abbott's office said the law does not allow the attorney general to make such a declaration."

I think this case is very big and it is appalling to see such a thing happen, I do not have experience so say if the law does or does not allow the attorney general to make such a decision, but I think a normal person would see that compensation is needed.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7544107.html
Posted by: Mohammad AlBader