When Ted Wang's father filed a lawsuit in the late 1970s against the US government - specifically the secretary of the US Army and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - he wanted acknowledgement that he had been wronged.

At the time of the suit, Hung Ping Wang was in the US Army Corps of Engineers as an engineer but in his decade-plus career at the federal agency he had never been promoted despite having plenty of experience in Taiwan and a master's degree from Stanford University in California. [Full story]