US stops $35-M payment to Marcos victims
December 21, 2007
WASHINGTON D.C. The United States Supreme Court Dec. 3 granted the request of the Philippine government to review the US lower courts decision to award $35 million in disputed funds to Marcos human rights victims and their American lawyers.
The Philippines, aided by the US solicitor general, sought the intervention of the US Supreme Court to review the California Court of Appeals and the Hawaii District Court decisions, with Manila arguing that it was improper for the US courts to take any action to decide ownership of the $35 million once Philippine immunity had been asserted and recognized.
The counsel for the Marcos human rights claimants, Robert Swift and Rod Domingo Jr., expressed disappointment over the US Supreme Courts decision. We were hoping to give the victims a nice Christmas present, Domingo said.
Both the Marcos victims and the Philippine government are claiming the money, with the Philippine Commission on Good Government saying that those millions were government funds misappropriated by then President Ferdinand Marcos and should therefore be adjudicated before the Sandiganbayan. The human rights victims are claiming the millions to satisfy a $2-billion judgment awarded by a Hawaii court in 1995 against the Marcos estate.
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