Threatened by a group of victims of the ill-treatments committed by Mercedes-Benz during the Argentinean dictatorship, Daimler, the German carmaker, was relieved on Tuesday after a US Supreme Court hearing. Indeed, the Court doesn’t seem ready to allow American courts to judge such cases. However, the grounds allowing the victims of human rights violations to sue multinationals in the US are still not clear. (Ref. 130621)
Since they couldn’t obtain compensation in Argentina, the victims turned to the American justice to sue Daimler, the German carmaker, for human rights crimes committed by its subsidiary, Mercedes, in Argentina, at the time of the military dictatorship. “At the time of suit, this was a dual American/German company with dual headquarters in the United States,” Daimler/Chrysler, the plaintiffs’ lawyer explained at a US Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday.
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