Personal Injury & Torts
Jun. 2, 2015
State could be venue for human rights suits
AB 15 proposes adding torture, genocide, extrajudicial killing, and other new claims to the civil code. Attorneys would have 10 years to file a claim, plus a one-time window to sue for events taking place in the last 115 years.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Tort lawyers cheered when the state Assembly unanimously passed a bill that would
make it easier to bring human rights abuse claims in California civil courts for actions
that individuals or corporations commit abroad. It's the first such proposal in the
nation and comes just two years after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively barred the...
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