Posted on 03/20/2020 10:12:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A cover-up and clampdown by the Chinese government in the early weeks of the coronavirus's emergence is raising questions over whether the communist superpower can be held legally accountable.
"Generally countries like China have sovereign immunity and governments cannot be brought to regular courts or held liable regardless of their conduct," Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israel-based attorney who has long specialized in suing terrorist regimes and state sponsors who orchestrate human rights abuses on behalf of victims, told Fox News.
"However, an argument could be made that just like support for terrorism, which is legally actionable, a government that engages in such reckless disregard and negligence and covers up an epidemic which has the potential to spread worldwide could be held legally liable ," Darshan-Leitner said. "Cover-ups and deliberate acts to conceal a deadly medical crisis are not [among] the protected acts of a sovereign state or of responsible leaders."
According to Darshan-Leitner, if a private party like a hospital or health care worker of a chemical company had learned of a dangerous and highly contagious disease and then deliberately covered its existence up and concealed it from the public they would clearly face criminal and civil liability.
"Why should a local or national government be any different? Clearly, China signed treaties and had a duty under international law to report the virus and not cover it up," she continued. "China is not to blame for creating the virus but for not sounding the international alarm and trying to conceal it from the world."
The lawsuits are already starting.
On Thursday, Florida's The Berman Law Group filed a class-action lawsuit against the People's Republic of China (PRC), alleging that the government's failure to report the disease and subsequently move to quickly contain it created a "giant Petri dish."
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There are ways to make them pay but to many billionaire boys love their China..they can pollute all they want, and make cheap shit and sell it back to us at a 200% mark up. They donate and lobby a lot of the other sell outs on the hill to allow them to do it.
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all these freeperthons and no edit button. :-(
Nor an "ignore this user" button.
Not complaining--this is still the best conservative news digest on the internet.
I’m taking China to small claims court!
They should be sued, and the World Health Organization for being their mouth-piece to spread the lies.
China essentially semiintentionally fired a global EMP missile at the rest of the world but everybody is still scared s^*tless of them.
There will be a Reckoning. Just not in court.
Don’t be ridiculous.It would make China enjoy a good laugh.
Since so many of us have little to do at the moment, being locked up in our homes, now might be a good time to start a list of retaliatory measures against China for poisoning the world.
Are you going to sic Matlock and Perry Mason on them?
legally accountable?? kill these aholes
How long after the chaos dies down before Trump suggests that the cost of China’s malfeasance be taken out of the portion of the national debt owed to China?
Don't worry about it. It's the Internets.
On the whole, I would prefer Saul Goodman and Roy Cohn, operating on a contingency fee arrangement.
You know, I mean you just know, that Trump is the one President who will totally, completely, $%^& them up over this.
China only holds just a little over a trillion dollars debt to US. It is just a start but it is a start. Default on the debt to them. They aren’t getting their money back. Next.
Destroy China economically. End their imports of junk and put the rest of the crap on notice. Find a new place to manufacture or sell all you can somewhere else because it isn’t coming into this country any more. It is what we need to do but how will the chicoms strike back?
He hinted in a briefing a couple of days ago that there would be consequences.
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