After three rounds at the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, lawyers at Mayer Brown pulled off a full win for a German insurer fighting claims by survivors of the Armenian Genocide. A unanimous en banc opinion said the California law that allowed for Armenian Genocide survivors to bring suit for certain insurance claims is preempted under the foreign affairs doctrine…Mayer Brown represents German Munich Re, the parent company of the insurance companies in the suit. Nearly a decade ago, survivors of Armenians killed or persecuted in the World War I era brought the class action over payments on life insurance policies…California passed a measure in 2000, California Code of Civil Procedure §354.4, that allowed California courts to hear insurance claims by "Armenian Genocide victims."