IBM, Ford Win Dismissal of Claims They Aided Apartheid
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International Business Machines Corp. and Ford Motor Co. won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming the aided South Africa’s apartheid regime, with a judge saying they couldn’t be sued in the U.S. over actions of their units overseas.
That victims of apartheid can’t pursue their 12-year-old case against companies they alleged supplied computer systems to the former regime and vehicles to security forces is “regrettable,” U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said in a ruling today in Manhattan.