The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
The national slavery reparations movement attempted to keep its cause alive in a federal appeals court Wednesday, arguing that major corporations financed the 19th-century slave trade and should have to pay millions of dollars today to slave descendants.
Plaintiffs' lawyers brought their case to an all-white, three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals after U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle threw out the matter last year, saying the statute of limitations had run out and that the plaintiffs couldn't prove they suffered harm.
Plaintiffs want it sent back to that judge for reconsideration.
Here's a gem from Judge Posner:
Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner asked why the case was just being brought now. "If you think you've been wronged, it shouldn't take 100 years to investigate the conduct [of the accused companies]," Posner said.
No word yet from the reparations movement on why Oprah or Michael Jordon should get reparations.
