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H.R. 3713, To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons
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H.R. 3713 would ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.
== Detailed Summary ==
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Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.
Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.
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== Status of the Legislation ==
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Latest Major Action: 10/1/2007:1/14/2008: Referred to House committee.subcommittee. Status: Referred to the House CommitteeSubcommittee on the Judiciary.Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
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S. Klein
October 17, 2007, 5:35pm (report abuse)The infamous cattle cars on display at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington represent a period of time in history that the world has pledged to never forget. However, Societe Nationale des Chemines Fers Francais, the French National Railway, would rather the world maintain a selective memory and overlook its operation of those cars that shipped thousands of innocent civilians from France to concentration camps across Eastern Europe (for which SNCF was paid per head, per kilometer). SNCF hopes to hide in cowardice behind the cloak of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which was passed more than thirty years after the railroad’s complicity in the Third Reich. This bill would remove that shroud and potentially provide SNCF’s victims (many of whom are American citizens) with redress in an impartial and transparent forum; something that the company’s own nation has failed to offer.
Carol Doppelt
November 7, 2007, 11:42am (report abuse)How many years must pass before justice prevails? The victims of SNCF are entitled and deserve to be heard!
Julie Joanes
November 7, 2007, 1:01pm (report abuse)For the sake of universal justice and human rights, this resolution must pass! America owes a debt to the victims of the Nazis because it closed its doors against them for far too long during that horrific genocide. Passing this resolution is the least we can do to help our own citizens whose families have survived until now and have remained competent and diligent in their efforts to regain what is rightfully theirs. These people deserve an impartial forum and these railroad companies should have been tried at Nuremburg.
Y Montrose
November 8, 2007, 10:26pm (report abuse)This profiteering from innocent civilians deaths cannot be ignored any longer. Justice must finally be served both to the victims and against the aggressors.