Article: Court nullifies ruling giving original copy of Bill of Rights to North Carolina

ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-27-2005
Dateline: RICHMOND, Virginia
A federal appeals court nullified a ruling that awarded an original copy of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights to the state of North Carolina, sending the case back to court to determine the rightful owner.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a lower-court judge has not yet heard the claims of a Connecticut businessman who says he owns 50 percent of the document, which disappeared from North Carolina after the Civil War and could be worth as much as $40 million (euro30.57 million).

The parchment document, one of 14 original copies of the 1789 draft, was seized by the ...

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