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ATLANTA – When Jan Bates Wheeler, a researcher at the University of Georgia, was preparing for her doctorate dissertation a few years ago, she never suspected she’d uncover a secret mission to stamp out racism and segregation in education during the 1960s. While examining nearly 10,000 pages of letters, memos …

I want to start in 1945. The guns had finally drawn silent in Western Europe. The bombs had stopped falling. The skies above were no longer filled with the scream of fighter planes. The invasions and battles were no more. The Allied forces had won, and World War II was …

Case: Puckett v. United States Date: Wednesday Jan. 14, 2009 Issue: Whether a forfeited claim that the government breached a plea agreement is subject to the plain error standard of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Background: James Benjamin Puckett robbed a Dallas bank and after four days on the …