{"id":3460,"date":"2026-06-23T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:06:44","slug":"exxon-can-sue-cuba-over-property-confiscated-in-1960-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"Exxon can sue Cuba over property confiscated in 1960, Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/button><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Exxon Mobil to sue state-owned oil companies in Cuba.<\/li>\n<li>Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the 6-3 majority opinion.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration backed Exxon in the litigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The Supreme Court on Tuesday  over the confiscation of property that occurred after Fidel Castro\u2019s regime seized power nearly seven decades ago, letting the lawsuit proceed at a time when President Donald Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward Havana.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3459\">Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian who sued prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion for a 6-3 majority with the liberal justices in dissent.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The decision is the latest development in an unusual confluence of legal and geopolitical moves Washington has taken to increase pressure on Cuba. The Trump administration indicted former Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro on May 20 on charges that stem from his alleged role in the\u202f1996 shootdown\u202fof two civilian aircraft that\u202fkilled four people, including three Americans. Trump has also flirted with military action in Cuba, telling reporters in March he might have the \u201chonor of taking Cuba.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A day after the Castro indictment, the Supreme Court decided another case dealing with property seized by Cuba. In that decision, an 8-1 court allowed a lawsuit to proceed against the world\u2019s largest cruise ship operators that had docked at Havana\u2019s pier amid a thawing of relations during the Obama administration.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Exxon case was also tied to property confiscated in 1960 shortly after Castro came to power in the island nation\u2019s revolution and to a law Congress passed in 1996 allowing US nationals to sue over that seized property in US courts.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            By the late 1950s, Standard Oil Company \u2013 later renamed Exxon Mobil Corporation \u2013 had extensive operations in Cuba, including a refinery, multiple product terminals and 117 service stations, all of which were seized by the Castro government and folded into state-owned enterprises.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3458\">Tetanus cases are rising. How to prevent getting this potentially fatal disease<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            An American commission in 1969 certified Standard Oil\u2019s loss at nearly $72 million. With interest and Exxon\u2019s request for triple damages,\u202fhundreds of millions\u202fof dollars may be at stake.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The case involving Exxon dealt with how the 1996 law interacts with another federal law that generally bars Americans from suing foreign governments in US courts. Exxon said Congress effectively supplanted that other law when it passed the 1996 act, but the Cuban-owned companies said they should be shielded from the litigation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Congress and the federal judiciary have generally been hesitant to allow lawsuits against foreign governments in domestic courts in part out of fear that foreign governments would respond by clearing the way for similar lawsuits filed abroad against the United States. Last year, in a separate case, a unanimous court ruled that the\u202f\u202fin US courts.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Trump administration backed Exxon in the litigation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe United States has compelling foreign-policy interests in ensuring that US nationals whose assets were illegally expropriated by Fidel Castro\u2019s communist regime receive recompense and in preventing the Cuban government from further benefiting from its wrongdoing,\u201d the Department of Justice told the court.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the Exxon case, lower courts handed down mixed rulings, but the DC Circuit rejected the company\u2019s argument that the 1996 law offered a clear path for its lawsuit.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3448\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s influence over Democrats put to the test, and other things to watch in Tuesday\u2019s elections<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Exxon Mobil to sue state-owned oil companies in Cuba over the confiscation of property that occurred after Fidel Castro\u2019s regime seized power nearly seven decades ago, letting the lawsuit proceed at a time when President Donald Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward Havana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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