Companies Propel Apartheid Case to U.S. Supreme Court

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A 2nd Circuit decision in October, allowing a lawsuit to proceed in U.S. courts against more than 50 U.S. and foreign corporations for their role in aiding South Africa's apartheid policies, set off business groups' fears that American companies will wind up being hauled into U.S. courts by foreign parties to defend against allegations of misdeed far from U.S. soil. On Thursday the companies involved filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the ruling.

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