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IN RE SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID LITIGATION

Nos. 02 MDL 1499(SAS), 02 Civ. 4712(SAS), 02 Civ. 6218(SAS), 03 Civ. 1024(SAS), 03 Civ. 4524(SAS).

15 F.Supp.3d 454 (2014)

In re SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID LITIGATION. This Document Relates to: Lungisile Ntsebeza, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ford Motor Company, and International Business Machines Corporation, Defendants. Sakewe Balintulo, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ford Motor Company, and International Machines Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed April 17, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Heller Nagel, Esq. , Jay J. Rice, Esq. , Diane E. Sammons, Esq. , Nagel Rice LLP, Roseland, NJ, Tyler R. Giannini, Esq. , International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Linda P. Nussbaum, Esq. , Grant & Eisenhofer, New York, NY, Paul L. Hoffman, Esq. , Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, Venice, CA, Judith Brown Chomsky, Esq. , Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA, Michael F. Osborne, Esq., South Africa, for Plaintiffs Ntsebeza et al.

Michael D. Hausfeld, Esq. , Hausfeld LLP, Washington, DC, Carroll H. Ingram, Esq. , Ingram Wilkinson, Hattiesburg, MS, for Plaintiffs Balintulo et al.

Keith R. Hummel, Esq. , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant International Business Machines Corp.

Jonathan Hacker, Esq. , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant Ford Motor Company.

OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

"Given that the law of every jurisdiction in the United States and of every civilized nation, and the law of numerous international treaties, provide that corporations are responsible for their torts, it would create a bizarre anomaly to immunize corporations from liability for the conduct of their agents in lawsuits brought for shockingly egregious violations of universally recognized principles...

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