| In Sudan
Case BNP Paribas Was Sued in 2016 Now Case
Proceeds With Administrator
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 18 – BNP Paribas was sued,
and raised as part of its
defense the laws of
Switzerland and of
Sudan.
On November
5, 2020 U.S. then-District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Alison J. Nathan held an oral
argument. Inner City Press
covered it.
The case
involves BNP violating Sudan
sanctions, and the mass
killing of civilians in Darfur
and elsewhere by the then Omar
al Bashir government, for
which BNP claims to bear no
responsibility.
Going back
from the docket, neither the
complaint nor the amended
complaint are available to the
public.
But the Rule 44.1
notice of issues of foreign
law is.
Jump cut to
September 9, 2022, after Judge
Nathan ascended to the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals. The
case was reassigned to
District Judge Alvin K.
Hellerstein, who held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
again covered it.
Now the
parties described to District
Judge Hellerstein how the case
is being processed by
Magistrate Judge Jennifer E.
Willis. Judge
Hellerstein mulled when and
where he will come in - on
class certification and
Daubert motions, he proposed.
The response was that those
are intertwined.
Judge
Hellerstein said to proceed
before Magistrate Judge
Willis, then return to him on
with a proposed agenda and
schedule.
On May 5, 2023
the case convened again, and
Inner City Press was again
there. Now there is new
bloodshed in Sudan - but it
was not mentioned, not only.
There was discussion of
Daubert motions, a summary
judgement briefing schedule
moved from August to September
8 due to "vacations and kids,"
as one of the lawyers put it.
No mention of kids currently
in Sudan, nor those left
abandoned by largely European
countries.
On November 18,
2024 the lawyers were back
before Judge Hellerstein, but
for a break for two criminal
cases. Judge Hellerstein has
said the class is all refugees
or asylees admitted by the US
who formerly lived in Suden or
South Suden between Nov 4,
1997 and December 31, 2021.
Appointed as administrator is
Epid Class Action and Claims
Solutions.
Inner City
Press will continue to cover
the case - and the country.
The case is
Kashef et al v. BNP Paribas SA
et al., 16-cv-3228
(Hellerstein / Willis)
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