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"Weapons of Mass Deception"
2004-12-13
Unocal slave labor case settled, appeals court arguments canceled
Monday, December 13
[JURIST]
Oral arguments due to take place Monday afternoon before a full bench of the US Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals were cancelled Sunday night as a Unocal spokeman announced the settlement of a lawsuit against the oil company in connection with slave labor, rape, and forced relocation in connection with its construction of an oil pipeline in Burma in the 1990s.
No details of the settlement were immediately available, but human rights groups had regarded the case as a key test of whether multinational corporations could be held liable in US courts for wrongful actions taken abroad. AP has more. The Unocal website about the litigation is here; a human rights website offering an alternative perspective is here.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/12/unocal-slave-labor-case-settled.php
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[JURIST]
Oral arguments due to take place Monday afternoon before a full bench of the US Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals were cancelled Sunday night as a Unocal spokeman announced the settlement of a lawsuit against the oil company in connection with slave labor, rape, and forced relocation in connection with its construction of an oil pipeline in Burma in the 1990s.
No details of the settlement were immediately available, but human rights groups had regarded the case as a key test of whether multinational corporations could be held liable in US courts for wrongful actions taken abroad. AP has more. The Unocal website about the litigation is here; a human rights website offering an alternative perspective is here.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/12/unocal-slave-labor-case-settled.php
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
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