"One of those lawsuits involves an oil giant claiming damages from Cuban companies for decades-old revolutionary asset seizures. The other, which one of the plaintiffs calls the most important Supreme Court case on Cuba "in the past sixty years," involves the scion of a fascist-friendly corporate empire who's taken credit for Trump's hardline stance on Cuba and is seeking compensation for a 122-year-old expired pier contract."
""The Supreme Court is doing about seventy cases a year," Robert Muse, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who has long focused on Cuban legal matters, told The Lever. "The fact that it would devote two places on the docket to litigation arising under a statute that's only produced about 50 cases in total - and where there's no circuit split - is extraordinary.""
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear lawsuits that could allow corporate interests to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in long-expropriated Cuban assets if the United States seizes control of Cuba. One suit seeks damages from Cuban companies for revolutionary-era seizures; another seeks compensation for a 122-year-old expired pier contract tied to a descendant of a pro-fascist corporate empire aligned with hardline U.S. policy. The cases aim to push U.S. law beyond borders to retroactively penalize a foreign revolution and transfer assets to private claimants. The litigation aligns with an intensified U.S. push for regime change amid Cuba's economic crises, and observers call the court's docket choices extraordinary.
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