N.Y. Court Rules Class Can Seek to Recover Funds in Philippine Abuse Case
November 19th, 2009
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision reaching the opposite result in a similar case, a state judge in Manhattan has ruled that a 10,000-member class can seek to recover $35 million being held in New York by Merrill Lynch to satisfy a $2 billion judgment it won in 1996 as compensation for human rights abuses committed by former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
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N.Y. Court Rules Class Can Seek to Recover Funds in Philippine Abuse Case
