
Settlement
November 30, 2006
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Brandon Mayfield, the Portland-area lawyer wrongly linked to the deadly Madrid, Spain, train bombings of 2004, received an official apology from the Justice Department and accepted a $2 million settlement Wednesday in his lawsuit against the federal government, which will likely fund his on-going lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Patriot Act.