HSBC MEXICO DRUG CARTEL CLAIM COULD EXPAND DEFINITION OF TERRORISM WITHIN US CASE LAW
February 1st, 2016
A CASE brought by American lawyers against the HSBC, alleging they were responsible for attacks of victims of Mexican drug cartels might broaden the definition of ‘terrorist’ under US law to include drug traffickers.
St Louis-based Elias Gutzler Spicer LLC has brought suit at the US District Court, Southern District of Texas (Brownsville). It sues the HSBC on behalf of the families of two US federal agents ambushed by Los Zetas cartel members; a pregnant US consulate worker and her husband, shot by the Juarez cartel; and a groom abducted from his wedding, ...
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