Legal Opinion
Allen v. United States
District Court, D. Utah
Decided May 10, 1984No. Civ. C-79-0515JPublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JENKINS, District Judge.
In a sense this case began in the mind of a thoughtful resident of Greece named Democritus some twenty-five hundred years ago. In response to a question put two centuries earlier by a compatriot, Thales, concerning the fundamental nature of matter, Democritus suggested the idea of atoms. This case is concerned with atoms, with government, with people, with legal relationships, and with social values.
This case is concerned with what reasonable men in positions of decision-making in the United States government between 1951 and 1963 knew or should have…
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