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Decision against Haiti in Favor of UN Will Be Appealed, Says Professor Quigley
01/26/2015
A United States District Court has ruled against Haitians in a class action suit undertaken by Haiti’s citizens in an effort to get the United Nations to take responsibility for the cholera epidemic triggered in October 2010.
The court claimed that the UN is immune from any suit, a decision that IU McKinney Professor Fran Quigley says is the wrong one and one that will be appealed. The case is Delama Georges, et al. v. United Nations, et al. Professor Quigley writes about the case in a column published January 25 in the "Indianapolis Star."
Cholera has killed over 8,700 Haitians and sickened another 700,000 since the UN’s troops introduced the disease in Haiti after the earthquake in February 2010.
Professor Quigley, ’87, is a clinical professor of law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Clinic students advocate for rights on behalf of the poor, and have a special focus on representing low-wage workers.
