Expedia, Hotels.com, and other travel websites won’t have to face claims they trafficked in confiscated American property by allowing customers to book rooms at resorts built on land allegedly stolen after the Cuban revolution.
A three-judge panel with the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court’s order to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim.
The panel said they agreed with the district court that the plaintiffs haven’t shown that the travel website companies “knowingly trafficked in confiscated American property” in violation of Title III of the Helms-Burton ...
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