Legal Opinion
Mastafa v. Chevron Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 23, 2014No. 10-5258-cvPublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
The question presented is whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) properly dismissed the complaint of five Iraqi nationals who claim that they and their family members were tortured, imprisoned, and in some cases executed, by the Saddam Hussein regime. Plaintiffs filed suit in July 2010 against defendants Chevron Corp. and Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas (“BNP”) (jointly, “defendants”), alleging that defendants illicitly diverted money to the Saddam Hussein regime — then subject to economic…
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