[Bikers4Bush]

Benefits to Native Americans were negotiated a long time ago and are based on treaties. WWII was only 63 years ago and there is significant documented evidence from a time when slavery was illegal.

Slavery was 150 years ago and legal until Lincoln ended it. You can't sue a company for doing something that was legal at the time. You can't make laws retroactive.

[DallasMike]

You can't sue a company for doing something that was legal at the time. You can't make laws retroactive.

I agree with your sentiment; however, there are hundreds of companies that have been successfully sued for violating today's environmental laws 50 years before they were enacted.

[Labyrinthos]

You can't sue a company for doing something that was legal at the time. You can't make laws retroactive.

Really? Tell that to GE Corp, which is being held liable for the cost of cleaning PCB's from the Hudson River, even though the law at the time allowed GE to dump the PCB's in the Hudson in the first place.

[CDHart]

"You can't sue a company for doing something that was legal at the time. You can't make laws retroactive."

Wanna bet?

Carolyn