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Immigration

Jul. 31, 2006

Courts Leave Bataan Survivors Out in the Cold

PALM DESERT - He lost the case. But for Jim Parkinson, representing thousands of American prisoners who survived the Bataan Death March and slave labor during World War II ended up yielding a bigger payout than money.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer


PALM DESERT - He lost the case. But for Jim Parkinson, representing thousands of American prisoners who survived the Bataan Death March and slave labor during World War II ended up yielding a bigger payout than money.
      "This case had an enormous impact on me," said Parkinson, a Palm Desert personal injury lawyer. "You never find fulfillment in life unt...

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