NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
Times Wire Reports
Apartheid victims who accused automakers and IBM of helping the government of South Africa engage in violent repression to enforce racial segregation in the 1970s and ‘80s can go to trial with their claims, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin rejected assertions by several countries that the lawsuits should not proceed because that might harm relations between the U.S. and South Africa.
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