Supreme Court unanimously sides with Hungary in Holocaust survivors' lawsuit

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Hill

Court Battles
Supreme Court unanimously sides with Hungary in Holocaust survivors’ lawsuit

by Zach Schonfeld - 02/21/25 10:40 AM ET

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Hungary on Friday by rejecting a group of Holocaust survivors’ legal theory that sought to haul the country into American courts to pay compensation.

The court’s decision rebuffs the survivors’ claims that they are entitled to funds from the Hungarian treasury for the government and national railway confiscating their assets during World War II, which have been liquidated and “comingled” with general government funds in the decades since.

“The Court concludes that a commingling theory, without more, cannot satisfy the commercial nexus requirement,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, former President Obama’s first nominee to the court, wrote for the court.

Sotomayor sympathized with the U.S. government’s concerns about the lawsuit and agreed that allowing it to move forward could “undermine the United States’ foreign relations and reciprocal self-interest” and “conformity with international law.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5157298-supreme-court-hungary-holocaust-survivors/

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We have the final opinion, and it is Hungary v. Simon.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220055772#post3
Fri Feb 21, 2025

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-867_5h26.pdf

[comradebillyboy]

1. Hard for me to see how US courts would have

any say in this foreign dispute.

But I'm even more surprised to learn that there are any Jews still living in Hungary at this point in time.

[neohippie]

2. They wanted to bring Hungary into US Courts

The people filing the lawsuit wanted it brought into US courts that is why

[Polybius]

3. Good ruling

Hard to argue with unanimous opinions.

[Quanto Magnus]

4. Well given this court

is mostly made of fascists/dictator fanbois/girls.... this is not surprising.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. It was unanimous decision. NT

[Jose Garcia]

6. Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion. Is she a fascist/dictator fanboi/girl?

The courts are supposed to rule based on the law, not what they want the law to be.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Maybe you should've read the whole article

and you would've known that it was a 9-0 ruling.