Two additional lawsuits have been field in the battle for slave reparations. (A New Move For Top Exec).* Two additional lawsuits have been filed in the battle for slave reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to . The suits, which target 12 corporations, were filed in federal courts in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Similar suits are to be filed in Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, according to activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann who has led recent campaigns for corporate reparations. Chester and Timothy Hurdle, whose father was a slave, filed the suit in California. Edlee Bankhead, who at age 119 is also the son of a slave, filed the suit in New York. Companies named in the suits include: investment banks J.P.MorganChase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; insurers American International Group
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) (NYSE: AIG; TYO: 8685 ) is a major American insurance corporation based in New York City. Inc. and Lloyd's of London Not to be confused with Lloyds Bank or Lloyd's Register. Lloyd's of London is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or “members”, whether individuals (traditionally known as ; tobacco and insurance giant Loews Corp.; railroad firms Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp.; textile firm WestPoint Stevens Inc.; and tobacco makers R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., and Liggett Group Inc. |
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