{"id":5216,"date":"2013-07-17T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2013-07-17T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:58:11","slug":"radioactive-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lyssamyss.deviantart.com\/art\/Radioactive-Sheep-164640465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5217\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Radioactive_Sheep_by_lyssamyss.png\" width=\"202\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>Browsing the Web this morning, I ran across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearfiles.org\/menu\/library\/media-gallery\/image\/tredici\/37.htm\">reference to a Judge A. Sherman Christensen<\/a>, also known as the &#8220;sheep case&#8221; judge, who tried a case in 1955 when Utah ranchers sued the federal government for the death of much of their livestock due to radioacive fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, relying on evidence offered by government expert witnesses, ruled against the ranchers.<\/p>\n<p>Astonishingly, 23 years later Christensen set aside his own judgment, having become convinced that fraud was committed in his courtroom by the Federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Even more astonishingly, an <a href=\"http:\/\/historytogo.utah.gov\/utah_chapters\/utah_today\/nucleartestingandthedownwinders.html\">appeals court rejected<\/a> Christensen&#8217;s findings. The ranchers never had a chance. Neither did their sheep.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5216' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the Web this morning, I ran across a reference to a Judge A. Sherman Christensen, also known as the &#8220;sheep case&#8221; judge, who tried a case in 1955 when Utah ranchers sued the federal government for the death of much of their livestock due to radioacive fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in Nevada. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5216' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,42,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-legal","category-politics","category-25-id","category-42-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}