Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:35 PM September 11th Victims Compensation Fund of 200 P.L. 107-42 January 9, 2002 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick, September 11th Victims Compensation Fund of 200 P.L. 107-42 It is our firm belief that the interim rules issued by the Special Master on December 20th are contrary to the letter and the spirit of the legislation which was enacted. The legislation authorized payment for economic and non-economic loss. Economic loss was defined as "any pecuniary loss... including the loss of earnings... to the extent recovery for such loss is allowed under applicable State law." (Sec. 401(5)). Non-economic loss was defined to include among other things "physical and emotional pain, suffering ... mental anguish ... and loss of consortium." (Sec. 402(5)). Naturally, non-economic loss extends to other immediate family members not just the next-of-kin. As Mayor Giuliani stated in his farewell address: "we have an obligation to the people who did die... Their families need to be protected just as if they had been alive, financially and in every other way that we can help and assist their families... There should be no compromise about that ever ..." The Victims Compensation Fund was created as a part of a comprehensive legislative package which bailed out the airline industry and imposed restrictions on the right of the victims' relatives to recover from the airlines in court. The Fund was established to protect the rights of the all the victims' relatives. The Special Master cannot take it on himself to alienate those rights. We request therefore that the interim rules be amended and redefined to the extent that all caps be removed when computing economic loss, that jurisprudence precedents be used to calculate pain and suffering awards and that each victim's family case be addressed separately. Justice demands no less. Individual Comment Newtonville MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN001473.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-09