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8 Nov 2001

Lily Nguyen, Globe & Mail [Canada]

High-profile lawyers target Talisman

Two U.S. lawyers who helped win a $1.25-billion (U.S.) settlement for Holocaust victims are now targeting Talisman Energy Inc. over alleged complicity in human rights abuses in Sudan.

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