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Litigation

Oct. 24, 2000

Difficult Choices

Federal lawsuits seeking compensation for forced labor by POWs during World War II recently were dismissed by a California judge, which may come as a surprise to some.

        By Ronald Steiner

        The federal lawsuits seeking compensation for forced labor by American and Allied prisoners of war during World War II recently were dismissed by Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California, who concluded that the Treaty of Peace with Japan and the postwar federal War Claims Act pre-empted the California law that purported to re...

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