Supreme Court to Hear Cuba Property Claims

Check out Blake Burdge's latest article in Jacobin, which looks at how two pending cases before the Supreme Court could “extend U.S. law beyond its borders to retroactively punish a foreign revolution — and deliver the spoils to profiteers.” The Court is set to hear the cases — one brought by ExxonMobil and the other by the descendants of a telecommunications tycoon with ties to Nazi Germany — on February 23. The cases were made possible when, in 2019, Trump activated Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Title III, which had never been activated before, allows U.S. claimants whose property was nationalized during the Cuban Revolution to sue companies for doing business on that property. If you haven’t yet, read our investigative article “Billboards and Backchannels” that exposed the lobbying campaign behind Title III’s implementation.