April 19, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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U.N.: Pay Marcos' victims
A United Nations committee has said the Philippines is obligated to compensate human rights victims for the "unreasonable" delay in paying a $2 billion judgment issued in Honolulu against the estate of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.
"We're just ecstatic about the opinion," said Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder, one of five attorneys who have represented the human rights victims in ongoing litigation with the Marcoses and his estate for the past 21 years.
"This is another step toward collection, and it is a significant victory because justice delayed is justice denied," Broder said. |
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May 5, 2006
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos victims to collect $40M, highest total to date
"'This is the first major amount of money we've been awarded,' said Sherry Broder, one of three attorneys representing the victims and their families.
'We are delighted that our clients will finally be in a position to achieve a recovery to provide some real compensation for the grave abuses they have suffered.'"
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July 13, 2004
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge allots $35 million to plaintiffs vs. Marcos
"Sherry Broder, one of three attorneys representing the victims, called the ruling a significant step in collecting the judgment. 'What we're trying to do is make these human rights cases meaningful, and the only way it will truly be meaningful is if the victims recover something,' she said."
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February 25, 2004
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge weighs fraud in Marcos lawsuit: At stake is $40 million allegedly belonging to the deceased dictator
Attorneys representing a class action of 9,539 Filipinos that successfully sued the Marcos estate for human-rights abuses are trying to recover the $40 million to start paying a $2 billion judgment awarded to the class by a Honolulu jury in 1995.
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June 21, 2003
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge lifts stay order in Marcos lawsuit
"We're not giving up," [Broder] said. "We will never give up."
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June 25, 2002
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos banker’s testimony sought: A judge orders the financier to testify on Swiss bank accounts
"We've been trying ... to track down and recover the Swiss assets," Broder said. "We need to move ahead and recover the Marcos assets and we believe the Swiss financial institutions should not be a safe haven for torturers and tyrants around the world."
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July 18, 2000
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos wealth issue raised in federal court
"[The Marcoses] assertion that they have no money or they have no access to any assets and are living on loans from friends for 14 years after Marcos was deposed and 11 years after his death is simply not credible," Broder said.
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February 25, 1999
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos family agrees to pay $150 million
"This result holds a dictator accountable and finally fulfills the goal we sought in 1986 when Ferdinand Marcos fled to Honolulu from the Philippines," said Sherry Broder, a Honolulu attorney who was one of the lawyers for the victims.
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September 18, 1995
Honolulu Advertiser
Human Rights
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Deal will mean cash for Marcos victims
If the settlement is approved by the Marcos family, the 9,541 victims of torture, execution and "disappearance" under Marcos martial law from 1971 to 1986 would be the first human rights victims in history to get money by suing their oppressors, according to Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder.
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January 19, 1995
Rocky Mountain News
Human Rights
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Marcos' Estate to Pay $770 Million
Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder, who appeared for the plaintiffs, said she hopes the decision "sends a message to other dictators who abuse their victims."
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September 14, 1994
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos victims trying to get $1.2 billion
Sherry P. Broder said the 10,000 victims are seeking the money before Imelda Marcos' and the Philippine government's maneuver to liquidate her assets.
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September 25, 1992
Honolulu Advertiser
Human Rights
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Marcos regime guilty on torture charges
After deliberating the equivalent of two days, the seven-man, four woman panel returned with verdicts favoring all but two of the trial's approximately 10,000 Filipino plaintiffs....Attorneys Sherry Broder of Honolulu and Robert Swift of Philadelphia, who represented the plaintiffs, hugged each other as the verdicts were read.
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August 9, 1991
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Taking terror to trial
Personal-injury cases like these, she says, "are on the cutting edge of law. Now we're looking for a means for people to have justice after torture."
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