Legal Opinion
Kashef v. BNP Paribas SA
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided March 20, 2018No. 16-cv-3228 (AJN)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALISON J. NATHAN, United States District Judge
This putative class action case arises out of atrocities committed by the Government of Sudan against its citizens between 1997 and 2009. Victims of the Sudanese government's human rights abuses bring a variety of state law claims against BNP Paribas S.A. and its subsidiaries and branches alleging that the bank funded the Government of Sudan and assisted the government in circumventing U.S. economic sanctions, allowing the Government of Sudan to continue its genocidal campaign against the people of Sudan. The Defendants have moved to dismiss the…
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Kashef v. BNP Paribas S.A.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2019
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