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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court discusses how a foreign country can be informed: you have been sued.
On Wednesday, the judges asked if the mailing of a notice of prosecution to the Chinese Embassy in the country was effective. The alternative in this case is to require that the notice be sent to an official of the foreign country itself. It was not clear how the judges would rule.
The case before the court arose out of the bomb attack against the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000. A group of injured sailors during the attack and several of their wives subsequently sued Sudan. They claimed that Sudan had provided support to al-Qaida, who had claimed responsibility for the attack.
A notice of prosecution was sent to the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. Sudan says this is not enough and calls for a $ 315 million judgment against him.
