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Stopping Stop-Loss

Brian Doherty | 12.7.2004 1:08 PM

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The legal fight against "stop-loss"--the policy of keeping soldiers in the armed forces past their agreed enlistment time--hits the class-action level, via the Center for Constitutional Rights. Our own Tim Cavanaugh tackled this matter ahead of the curve, back in Dec. 2003.

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Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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