| Author | Message | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject: US wants Geronimo lawsuit against Skull and Bones dismissed |
| Why the hell would the US Government involve itself in such a trivial matter?...money and power trumps decency, justice and equality everytime.
U.S. wants Geronimo lawsuit dismissed
Apache leader’s descendants seek remains allegedly stolen by Yale society
The Associated Press
updated 5:16 a.m. CT, Mon., June 22, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen long ago by members of a secret society at Yale University.
The government filed the motion June 10 to oppose a lawsuit filed in February by 20 of Geronimo's descendants, who want to rebury the warrior near his birthplace in southern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.
Geronimo died in 1909. The lawsuit alleges that Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to keep in its New Haven, Connecticut, clubhouse.
Both Presidents Bush, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and many others in powerful government and industry positions are members of the society, which is not affiliated with the university.
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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31483449/ns/us_news-life/ | |  | | Cowboy | | Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: |
| | al Jeffie wrote: | | Why the hell would the US Government involve itself in such a trivial matter? |
Probably because the case was filed in federal court against federal officials....
In February, 20 descendants of Geronimo filed a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Secretary of the Army Peter Geren in their capacity as federal officials.
Their lawsuit, which also named Yale University and the Skull and Bones Society as defendants, alleged violations of a law passed in 1990 to protect Native Americans' rights to the remains of their family members. ....
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