Suits & Sentences will just flat-out assert: there must be attorneys working on the case McKesson Corp. v. Islamic Republic of Iran who were not yet born when the case was first filed in 1982.
And this case that makes Charles Dickens' Jarndyce and Jarndyce look like a day in traffic court still keeps chugging along. A weary sounding U.S. District Judge Richard Leon noted Monday:
"In its 27 -year history, this case has reached the United States Court of Appeals five times."
In his latest procedural decision Monday, an important one, Judge Leon concluded that McKesson can proceed with it case. Stated the judge:
"McKesson does have a cause of action under Iranian law...customary international law continues to provide McKesson with a cause of action...and the act of state doctrine does not apply in this case."
In brief -- very brief, McKesson accuses Iran of appropriating a dairy business established back in 1960. A 2000 trial concluded that McKesson was owed $20 million but there have been ongoing disputes ever since.
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