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The egregious judge, Irving Kaufman, is also the judge who (by now on the 2d Circuit) wrote for the court in Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F. 2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980), a landmark case on the subject of torture:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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The egregious judge, Irving Kaufmann, is also the judge who (by now on the 2d Circuit) wrote for the court in Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F. 2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980), a landmark case on the subject of torture:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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This is a lovely picture of a brief turn-of-the millenium era in Fil Am arts.
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Is this one of the reasons why many would love to tag along the word Fil before or after their country of origin such as Fil-Am, Fil-Chinese, Fil-whatever and most recently Fil-British.
Davao Today 2009
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Is this one of the reasons why many would love to tag along the word Fil before or after their country of origin such as Fil-Am, Fil-Chinese, Fil-whatever and most recently Fil-British.
Davao Today 2009
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Is this one of the reasons why many would love to tag along the word Fil before or after their country of origin such as Fil-Am, Fil-Chinese, Fil-whatever and most recently Fil-British.
Davao Today 2009
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Selerier, whom we must call Fil-deSoie, as we shall also call Dannepont la Pouraille, already guilty of evading surveillance, was concerned in certain well-known robberies without bloodshed, which would certainly take him back to the hulks for at least twenty years.
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Pere Ralleau, called le Rouleur, alias Fil-de-Soie -- he had thirty names, and as many passports -- will henceforth be spoken of by this name only, as he was called by no other among the swell-mob.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Selerier, whom we must call Fil-de-Soie, as we shall also call Dannepont la
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Selerier, alias l'Avuergnat, Pere Ralleau, and le Rouleur, who in the sphere known to the hulks as the swell-mob was called Fil-de-Soie (or silken thread) -- a nickname he owed to the skill with which he slipped through the various perils of the business -- was an old ally of Jacques
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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