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Countries try suing in United States, claim 'elaborate criminal schemes'
Jump to full article: Law.com, 2002-12-11
Author: Richmond Eustis / Fulton County Daily Report
Intro: A centuries-old common-law rule may bar three Latin American nations from suing American tobacco companies under RICO in U.S. courts.
According to Kenneth J. Parsigian, who argued for the tobacco companies Tuesday before a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nations of Belize, Ecuador and Honduras don't have the right to sue his clients.
"No court anywhere in history, anywhere in the world, has ever allowed a claim like this to go forward," said Parsigian, of Boston's Goodwin Proctor.
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