Sanctions: $354 Million Contempt Judgment Against Marcos Estate Affirmed By Ninth Circuit

$100,000 Per Day Penalty Also Sustained.

     As reported by Leigh Jones in an October 25, 2012 post at The National Law Journal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a $354 million contempt judgment against the Estate of Ferdinand Marcos and in favor of a human rights class action group in a suit where plaintiffs sued alleging summary executions, tortures, and other human right violations committed by the Marcos regime. The contempt judgment followed in connection with an earlier $2 billion judgment against the estate, with the contempt ruling aimed at attempts by Imelda Marcos and her son Ferdinand, Jr. to move money out of the estate so as to avoid paying the $2 billion judgment. The Ninth Circuit also sustained a $100,000 per day penalty imposed by the district court.

Lady Bird Johnson, Ferdinand Marcos, LBJ, Imelda Marcos.  Sept. 14, 1966.  Marion S. Trikosko, photographer.  Library of Congress.