Comment / DSV 'slices the baloney pretty thin' in Cuba case – but wins first round

© Bert Folsom

Remember the billion-dollar DSV / Cuban lawsuit? A gloriously absurd, only-in-America, lawyer-enriching set of court cases in which DSV and partners have been accused of unlawfully using expropriated property for financial gain.

More simply put – DSV and its lines used a Cuban port which had been in the hands of North American Sugar Industries until the Cuban revolution, when the government reclaimed it.

Under a law then-president Trump re-introduced in 2019, US nationals with claims to confiscated property in Cuba can ...