Inside a class action : the Holocaust and the Swiss banks / Jane Schapiro

"On October 21, 1996, attorney Michael Hausfeld, with a team of lawyers, filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocaust victims. The suit accused the banks of, among other things, acting as the chief financiers...

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Main Authors:Schapiro, Jane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Madison, Wis : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 2003
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Table of Contents
Winds of truthLooking back
Plaintiffs speak
The devil's bridge
An uneasy alliance
A rough calculation
Arguments and motions
The hearing
Stucki's ghost
A victim's fund
A separate peace
Money dance
An accounting
The reckoning.