Political Question Doctrine

International Law Update - Nbr. 11-7, July 2005

International Law Group
Permanent Link: http://vlex.com/vid/political-question-doctrine-447228
Id. vLex: VLEX-447228

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Following remand from U.S. Supreme Court, D. C. Circuit affirms dismissal of non-Japanese plaintiffs' complaint against Japan for their sexual enslavement as "comfort women" in 1940s because review would entail interpretation of treaties to which U.S. does not belong thus involving political questions

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The following case involves compensation claims by 15 Asian women from China, Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines whom the Japanese army allegedly forced into sexual slavery before and during the Second World War.

The plaintiffs sued Japan in 2...

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