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- From: monaghan@cac.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan )
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:27:20 GMT
- Organization: UW Computing
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- References: <92363.133501IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Dec29.055724.23632@midway.uchicago.edu> <92364.122435RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- In article <92364.122435RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >
- >If in U.S. court's eye, the judicial system in the foreign countryis
- >competent enough, then the U.S. law will not interfere with the that
- >matter. That however doesn'tforbid anybody from filing a case.
- >
- >At this jucture I would like topoint out Bhopal gas tragedy case. The
- >Indian government tried to file the case in US, as it is a known fact
- >that the US courts give large comensations ( The figure they were talking
- >was over a billion $.) However they presented the case on the ground that
- >the indian judicial system hasn't been exposed to such cases. The Union
- >carbide wanted the case to be tried in India for the same monetery reason
- > The US judge opined that the Indian courts arecompetent enough and so
- >the case should be tried in INDIA and not US
- >
- >(finally the victims got around 500 million $ as a comp.)
- >
- >Abhay
-
- And what, if anything, does this have to do with CHESS???
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