Slavery reparations suit tossed from federal court

Well, there's at least one federal judge with common sense in the Republic: Charles Norgle, who tossed a slavery "reparations" suit out of federal court in Chicago today.

From the Chicago Sun-Times, an excerpt:

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by slave descendants seeking reparations from corporations that benefited from slave labor-the end of the line in U.S. District Court.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle said plaintiffs in the case did not prove they were personally injured by slavery, adding that a genealogical tie to slaves is not enough to show that injury. He also said the plaintiffs failed to show any concrete and particular suffering that wasn't true of African Americans in general. Norgle also said those suing failed to allege any conduct by the 18 defendants that individually affected any of the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit, filed in 2002, sought to hold 18 corporations liable for their business activities in the slave era.

Norgle's decision, the second legal defeat for the plaintiffs in district court, slams the door on the case in district court. Plaintiffs can appeal to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Conrad Worrill, Chairman of the National Black United Front denounced the ruling as the product of the conservative right-winged judicial, political, decision-making.
He scoffed at Norgle's contention that the plaintiffs in the case had not proven personal injury from slavery.

"Judge Norgle is just a liar, he is exercising his political ideology," Worrill said. "We did prove it. It is a question of whose eyes are interpreting the facts. His eyes are the eyes of a racist."

Conrad Worrill is a first degree Moonbat, he's been calling for reparations for slavery for years. He's a professor at Chicago's Northeastern Illinois University and listed as the advisor for the Inner Cities Studies Department there. Not sure if that makes him the department head, but he's quite qualified for the job: He's a loony leftist.

Here's is the National Black United Front site.

Hat tip to Obiter Dictum.