Article: U.S. District Court in Miami Rules in Favor of Dole and Rejects Nicaragua Judgment.

Dole Food Company, Inc. announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued an order denying recognition and enforcement of a $97 million Nicaragua judgment against Dole and another U.S. company.

In the Court's Order Denying Recognition of Judgment in Miguel Angel Sanchez Osorio et al. v. Dole Food Company et al., Judge Paul C. Huck cited separate and independent grounds for non-recognition: the Nicaragua trial court did not have jurisdiction over the defendant companies; the judgment did not arise out of proceedings that comported with the international concept of due process; the judgment was rendered under a system ...

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