Haiti’s former President Michel Joseph Martelly waits for the start of a round table meeting at the EU-CELAC summit in Brussels on June 10, 2015. Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday held that the “act of state” doctrine did not bar antitrust claims against the Haitian government officials and multinational corporations for an alleged price-fixing scheme.
The 29-page ruling, from a three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court, revived a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the defendants, including Western Union and three of the country’s former presidents, had conspired to fix the price of remittances and phone calls from the U.S. to Haiti.
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