Dr. Baker's book is written in an academic style and sticks closely to the stories of the 40 adult subjects, ages 19 to 67, who describe being wrongfully manipulated by a parent.
Merckle Group is seeking damages of Eu 231 million ($263 million), alleging that Porsche wrongfully manipulated the share price of Volkswagen in 2008 and thereby caused a "short squeeze," torpedoing a bet by Adolf Merckle that shares of the automaker would fall.
Granted, Hollywood has given us prestige documentaries like classic When We Were Kings (1996), about the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman; and biopics of black boxers in the form of Norman Jewison's moving The Hurricane (1999), about the wrongfully imprisoned Rubin Carter, and Michael Mann's stately, if slightly stodgy Ali (2001).
Based on the experiences of late boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Washington depicts the struggles of the wrongfully convicted Carter and his fight to gain freedom. .
"By continuing the practice of family detention, we are betraying our nation's core values and rendering our formal apologies to families detained wrongfully at Angel and Ellis Islands and during WWII, some of the darkest moments of U.S. history, meaningless," Kristina Shull, who teaches humanities at the University of California in Irvine, wrote in a statement.
"Not one dollar was wrongfully taken," Mr. Shargel said.
"My child was killed wrongfully," said Ms. Nichols, who has two other children, in their 20's.
Then there are those individuals who spend decades wrongfully imprisoned: Barry George, Stefan Kiszko, Winston Silcott, Kenny Richey.
This has inevitably made non-Muslims believe, wrongfully, that Islam is a religion of intolerance, militancy and terrorism.
But few realize that if the women, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were wrongfully held, Mr. Obama had a legal obligation to help gain their release.
Prosecutors were "going to be asking the grand jury to consider all of the issues that evening, whether the police acted wrongfully, whether Angel acted wrongfully," Mr. Galluzzo said, adding that it was the job of the special grand jury "to figure out what happened".
