Class action complaint for damages against Cyrus Friedheim and Charles Keiser

USA: Judge rejects Chiquita’s motion to reduce plaintiffs' award in case about company’s financing paramilitaries in Colombia

Date:: 21 Oct 2024
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"In June 2024, a federal court jury found...Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a brutal paramilitary death squad, and awarded...a total of $38 million [to the plaintiffs], with each Plaintiff’s award being at or above two million dollars. On October 18, 2024, the presiding judge rejected Chiquita’s motion to reduce the jury award to approximately $50,000 for each plaintiff..."

Chiquita plans to appeal US court verdict on Colombia killings

Date:: 11 Jun 2024
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Chiquita Brands International plans to appeal a US federal court ruling ordering $38.3m in damages to families of Colombian paramilitary victims. The company maintains its payments to AUC were extortion, not collusion. Chiquita was previously fined $25m in 2007 for paying protection money to paramilitaries from 2001-2004.

USA: Banana giant Chiquita held liable for funding paramilitaries

Date:: 11 Jun 2024
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A U.S. court has ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay $38.3 million to Colombian families after finding the company liable for financing a paramilitary group responsible for their relatives' deaths.

Chiquita found guilty of funding Colombian paramilitary group - must pay $38.3 million

Date:: 11 Jun 2024
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Jury verdict reached: Chiquita liable for murders of Colombian terror victims – must pay $38.3 million

Date:: 10 Jun 2024
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"Six-week jury trial is the first of a series of bellwether trials in 16-year wrongful death lawsuit. In 2007, Chiquita pled guilty to a federal crime arising out of its payments to the terror group responsible for the murders."

Federal Court Jury in West Palm Beach Rules Against Chiquita Brands International in Landmark Case

Date:: 10 Jun 2024
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A federal court jury in West Palm Beach ruled against Chiquita Brands International, awarding $38.3 million to Plaintiffs in a landmark case regarding Chiquita's financial support of the violent Colombian paramilitary group AUC from 1996 to 2004.

US jury finds Chiquita liable for financing Colombian paramilitary death squads

Date:: 10 Jun 2024
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"After 17 years of litigation, a monumental win for victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia before a court in the United States."

US trial against Chiquita accused of financing Colombian paramilitaries that killed thousands begins after >10 years

Date:: 3 May 2024
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The trial against Chiquita follows more than a decade of litigation over illegal payments the banana giant made to Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, a militant group known to kidnap and kill civilians.

US court orders banana company Chiquita Brands International to stand trial for allegedly financing paramilitary death squads in Colombia

Date:: 15 Mar 2023
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Appellate Court revives human rights case against Chiquita

Date:: 6 Sep 2022
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"The decision overturns a lower court ruling and reinstates claims against Chiquita in a historic lawsuit over the company’s role in funding paramilitary groups in Colombia."

11th Circuit revives lawsuits accusing Chiquita of funding Colombian terrorists

Date:: 6 Sep 2022
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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed additional evidence to be admitted in a case involving Chiquita's alleged backing of a Colombian terrorist organisation, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). Family members of victims allegedly murdered by the group seek to hold the banana company liable for financing the AUC, as the families argue that the murders would not have occurred without such support. The Court partially overturned the verdict of the lower court, which had excluded expert testimony and circumstantial evidence.

USA: Florida federal Judge dismisses several claims alleging Chiquita funded a paramilitary group in Colombia

Date:: 3 Sep 2022
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12 organisations sign amicus brief asking US Supreme Court to protect victims' identities in Chiquita lawsuit re payments to Colombia paramilitaries

Date:: 9 Jul 2021
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Decision which revoke privacy protections in Carrizosa v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc., in U.S. Court Of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Date:: 27 Jul 2020
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Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial by 200 Colombian Plaintiffs in Jane Doe 8 et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc in New Jersey District Court

Date:: 8 Apr 2020
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200 Colombians file US lawsuit against Chiquita seeking redress for family members allegedly murdered by paramilitary death squads

Date:: 3 Apr 2020
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Colombia: Abogado de víctimas de Chiquita espera que haya justicia en Colombia y que el caso prosiga en los Estados Unidos

Date:: 25 Sep 2018
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7 accusing Chiquita of complicity in deaths of relatives through payments to Colombian paramilitaries are voluntarily dismissed from US lawsuit

Date:: 11 Aug 2017
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Chiquita response

Date:: 12 Jun 2017
Content Type:: Company Response

Relatives of Colombians killed by paramilitary groups file complaint in US alleging that Chiquita executives committed crimes against humanity

Date:: 20 Mar 2017
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