{"id":15553,"date":"2012-10-13T17:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/u-s-court-delays-ruling-on-mtn-4-2-bln-iran-suit\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T15:55:06","slug":"u-s-court-delays-ruling-on-mtn-4-2-bln-iran-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-court-delays-ruling-on-mtn-4-2-bln-iran-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. court delays ruling on MTN $4.2 bln Iran suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Court stays ruling on MTN motion to dismiss<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To wait for outcome of Kiobel case<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Both cases use Alien Tort Statute<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. court has delayed<br \/>\nruling on a $4.2 billion suit by Turkish mobile operator<br \/>\nTurkcell against South African rival MTN Group<br \/>\n, pending a Supreme Court decision on a separate case,<br \/>\nthe two companies said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s largest cell phone operator sued MTN in a U.S.<br \/>\nfederal court in March, alleging the Johannesburg-based company<br \/>\nused bribery and attempted trafficking of political influence to<br \/>\nwin a mobile licence in Iran that was first awarded to Turkcell.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTN has asked for the case to be dismissed, saying the suit<br \/>\nhas no legal merit and a U.S. court does not have jurisdiction<br \/>\nover the case.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The court has put the suit on hold, the two companies said<br \/>\nin separate statements late on Friday, to await a Supreme Court<br \/>\ndecision on a different case using the Alien Tort Statute &#8211; the<br \/>\nhuman rights law on which Turkcell&#8217;s suit is based.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This month the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in<br \/>\nKiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell, a high-profile case where<br \/>\n12 Nigerians accuse the Anglo-Dutch oil company of complicity in<br \/>\nhuman rights abuses in the African country.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Court stays ruling on MTN motion to dismiss * To wait for outcome of Kiobel case * Both cases use Alien Tort Statute By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. court has delayed ruling on a $4.2 billion suit by Turkish mobile operator Turkcell against South African rival MTN Group , [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}