Appeals Court Revisits Armenian Genocide Lawsuit
By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO November 8, 2011 (AP)
A federal appeals court on Monday took up the thorny issue of whether California law declaring there was an Armenian genocide in Turkey conflicts with U.S. foreign policy.
At issue is a state law that labels the deaths a genocide, allowing heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire to pursue a lawsuit seeking life insurance payments from three German insurers.
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