Bodner et al. v. Banque Paribas et al., a Holocaust-era case involving illegal wartime confiscation of bank assets by more than a dozen French and British banking institutions alleging violations of customary international law under the Alien Tort Statute, the only such case which obtained a favorable judicial opinion on the merits. An article about the case is available here.
In re German & Austrian Holocaust Litig.,counsel for plaintiffs in Holocaust-era international litigation involving in major international negotiations between corporations and governments of France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States resulting in multilateral Executive Agreements resolving Holocaust-era litigation in U.S. courts by creating an additional U.S. $5.2 billion fund for plaintiffs.
Manning v. Utilities Mutual Ins. Co. et al., addressing novel question of which statute of limitation should be applied to the federal Medicare Secondary Payer statute, an issue of first impresion before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court unanimously held in favor of plaintiff who obtained summary judgment on remand in the trial court. The appellate opinion was published in the New York Law Journal.
Sahu et al. v. Union Carbide et al., an ternational environmental litigation arising from widespread groundwater pollution caused by the plant in Bhopal, India responsible for the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster. This case is still pending.
Poddar et al. v. State Bank of India, involving default on international issue of sovereign debt bonds issued by a foreign sovereign bank. The Court recently certified a class of more than 3,000 bondholders. An article about the case that appeared in the Indus Business Journal may be found here.
Khulamani et al. v. Barclays et al., involving claims brought against many foreign and domestic corporations for aiding and abetting violations of international law in the Apartheid era. Mr. Sharma was counsel for Amicus Curiae former members of the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission on behalf of plaintiffs. A PDF copy of the short amicus brief may be obtained here.
