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. Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:51 AM compensation for significant others/same sex partners Pain and suffering damages traditionally are added to the victim's Estate, distributed under a Last Will and Testament. This legal tradition may create a way for the Special Master to compensate significant others and same sex partners who cannot collect on the Wrongful Death claims for economic damages, which ordinarily are distributed to dependents. (For a discussion on legal treatment of Wrongful Death and survival damages, see any Prosser, Wade and Schwartz text!) You may find that same sex partners tended to have made Testamentary dispositions, because that has always been a method to assure financial security for one another. Although there would tend to be a disparity in treatment between spouses and partners, under current laws this would at least assure that individuals received some compensation. Individual Comment Bronx, New York September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-27 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 dojP000202.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. 2002-01-27