At the end of ten years of violent civil war, the Lome Peace Accord gave a blanket amnesty to all fighters except a handful of leaders "who bore the greatest responsibility" for the war crimes committed.
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Joseph Kennedy served as ambassador to Britain before World War II and pushed his sons to strive forthe presidency, a burden "Teddy" borefor much of his life as the only surviving Kennedy son.
But Powell punctured this legal fiction in a dissent, noting that the lawyer was operating under a contingency-fee agreement and the plaintiff bore no responsibility forthe costs.