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Court Case Seeks to Define a Catholic Priest's Family

Date: July 6, 2001

Author: William Glaberson

QUOTE: While the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco...was held by Islamic radicals for nearly 19 months in Lebanon in the 1980's, his relatives back home in Joliet, Ill., felt the anxieties shared by all the hostages' families.

ABSTRACT: Families of the Iran hostages were approved by a 1996 law to seek damages for the suffering caused by their relatives captivity, but can that law be interpreted to include the neices and nephews of a Roman Catholic priest?

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Key People:

• Terry A. Anderson
• Prof. Marshall S. Shapo Esq.
• Prof. Michael Heise Esq.
• Thomas Sutherland
• Rev. Raymond C. O'Brien Esq.
• Rev. D. Reginald Whitt Esq.

Key Organizations:

• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Family & Friends & Interpersonal
  • Family

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • International Relations/Diplomacy

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Law / Common Law
    • Damages
    • Family Law
    • Lawsuits / Litigation
    • Property Rights / Ownership
      • Estate / Inheritance Law
  • Criminal Law
    • Kidnapping/Slavery
  • Non-US systems: International Law

• Philosophy & Religion
  • Religion: General
    • Christian
      • Roman Catholic

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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