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FIVE US STATES SUPPORT GENOCIDE INSURANCE LAW
news.am
Dec 14 2011
Armenia
California Attorney General Kamala Harris was joined by her
counterparts from Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nevada and Rhode Island,
supporting the constitutionality of California's Armenian Genocide
Life Insurance Recovery Act and reaffirming an earlier ruling by a
3-member panel of the same court, Asbareznewspaper reports.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said descendants
of the Armenian Genocide victims can get payment from the companies
selling life insurance to their relatives.
Under the court decision, California law labeling the killings as
genocide does not contradict U.S. foreign policy.
The court reversed its last year's decision when it ruled that the
law on insurance claims was unconstitutional.
In the brief imploring the court to uphold the law, the attorneys
general argue that "...no treaty, congressional resolution or executive
agreement establishes a federal foreign policy that conflicts with
or displaces, Section 354.4."
"The Federal government's inaction in the face of numerous uses of
the term 'Armenian Genocide' by California and other states belies any
significant federal interest in preventing states from using the term.
Some 40 other states have statutes and or proclamations that use that
term and 'the federal government' has never expressed any opposition
to any such recognition," the newspaper quotes the attorneys.
news.am
Dec 14 2011
Armenia
California Attorney General Kamala Harris was joined by her
counterparts from Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nevada and Rhode Island,
supporting the constitutionality of California's Armenian Genocide
Life Insurance Recovery Act and reaffirming an earlier ruling by a
3-member panel of the same court, Asbareznewspaper reports.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said descendants
of the Armenian Genocide victims can get payment from the companies
selling life insurance to their relatives.
Under the court decision, California law labeling the killings as
genocide does not contradict U.S. foreign policy.
The court reversed its last year's decision when it ruled that the
law on insurance claims was unconstitutional.
In the brief imploring the court to uphold the law, the attorneys
general argue that "...no treaty, congressional resolution or executive
agreement establishes a federal foreign policy that conflicts with
or displaces, Section 354.4."
"The Federal government's inaction in the face of numerous uses of
the term 'Armenian Genocide' by California and other states belies any
significant federal interest in preventing states from using the term.
Some 40 other states have statutes and or proclamations that use that
term and 'the federal government' has never expressed any opposition
to any such recognition," the newspaper quotes the attorneys.