US Supreme Court raises doubts about corporation responsibility during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’

Thursday, October 17th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

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A majority of US Supreme Court justices raised doubts this week over whether Germany’s Daimler-Chrysler can be sued in federal court for allegations that a subsidiary violated the human rights of workers at a plant in Argentina during the last military dictatorship that was in power from 1976-1983. Read full article

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Welsh Wizard
Personally, my heart goes out to those who suffered but this ruling pierces the corporate veil. I am very surprised at the decision of the lower court...
Oct 17th, 2013 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Gonzo22
“US Supreme Court raises doubts about corporation responsibility during Argentina’s dirty war’” The doubts are not about the corporation responsibility, the doubts are about the court's authority to hear a case against a foreign corporation, it's about jurisdiction.
Oct 17th, 2013 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GFace
It sort of BS opens up a lovely can of worms, and has been a hot matter of debate in the US before this with other types of post-generational reparations. If I can't sue the people who killed my family, I will sue Kevin Bacon since he's six degrees from everyone. This is what galls me about bogus amnesty and years-late-dollars-(and-necks)-short revisiting these mistakes either out of delated justice of cynical political expedience. By the time people get around to getting justice, the people who did it are dead, senile, or under “house-arrest” or have such a CYA network of anonymous little-Eichmans that genuine retribution is difficult to impossible, and angry and embittered survivors take their pound of genuinely-deserved flesh from third and even fourth parties who may have had nothing to do with the atrocities.
Oct 17th, 2013 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Gonzo22
@3 Yeah, let's forget the Nazi Wernher von Braun because of the rockets. Let's infect some Guatemalans with the syphilis virus and then all we'll say is “we're sorry”. Oh, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was such a thrill for the rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government. Why people hate us if we the Unitedstatians are good people helping the peoples of the world to advance! And what to say about dictatorships and Henry Kissinger giving a helping hand or his two helping hands to Videla and other dictators in Paraguay and Brazil and Chile, why can't people just forget and live in the present and forgive the war criminals and the Nazis and the US for their crimes against humanity? Why people, why?
Oct 17th, 2013 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 4 BOZO

WTF!
Oct 17th, 2013 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
@4 Good idea.

And Argentina can stop banging on about 1833 and the past 200 years like it was yesterday.

But while Argentina keeps regurgitating the past, so will I .

And I will forget the war crimes Argentina committed in the Falkland Islands when they remove the mines and apologise to the Islanders for the war they started.
Oct 17th, 2013 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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