California Supreme Court
Aug. 25, 2009
U.S. Policy Trumps State Law, Collections on Armenian Killings
A divided federal appellate court ruled Thursday that the U.S. foreign policy of not recognizing the Armenian genocide trumps a California law designed to help Armenian Americans sue foreign insurance companies for payment of claims for the deaths of ancestors in the Ottoman Empire's mass killings. the
Daily Journal Staff Writer A federal appellate court has ruled that America's official policy of not recognizing the Armenian genocide trumps a California law helping Armenian-Americans sue foreign insurance companies over the deaths of ancestors in the Ottoman Empire's mass killings. In a 2-1 decision last week, Senior Circuit Judges David R. Thompson and Dorothy W. Nelson ruled that presidential policy preempts legislative recog...
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