I heard about this tonight on a podcast on The New Internationalist . Check out the wikipedia article -alien tort statute. Very interesting. The corporations aren't very happy about this old law being used this way and Bush has been trying to gut the law. Ungoing...
The US Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court ruling that multinational companies can be sued in a US court for allegedly aiding and abetting the former apartheid government in South Africa. The high court announced Monday that it could not hear a case involving 11 consolidated lawsuits against more than 50 international corporations. More below...
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