Federal court blocks Armenian genocide insurance claims, citing U.S. diplomatic policy

Descendants of approximately 1.2 million Armenians killed in the 1915-18 Ottoman massacre are barred from seeking compensation for unpaid insurance claims and property recovery.

Nearly a century after the Ottoman massacres of 1915 to 1918, a federal appeals court has ruled that the United States government's diplomatic silence on the Armenian genocide carries more legal weight than the grief and claims of the descendants left behind. The 9th Circuit struck down a California law that had briefly opened the courthouse door to roughly 1.2 million victims' families seeking unpaid insurance proceeds from German companies, finding that the president's authority over foreign relations — shaped largely by the need to preserve ties with Turkey — overrides state law. It is a ru

Federal court blocks Armenian genocide insurance claims, citing U.S. diplomatic policy

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