Nairobi, May 19 -- New York
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
The court's unanimous decision applies only to claims brought by US nationals, members of the US military, and employees of the US government or embassy contractors.
Kenyan relatives of embassy workers or private contractors killed or injured in the bombing are not covered by Monday's ruling.
APPEALS COURT
The court stated that a US appeals court must now address the question of whether those Kenyan nationals are entitled to a share of the full $4.3 billion in punitive damages awarded by a US judge in ...