Sec. 3. Access to United States courts for holocaust deportees
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The United States district courts shall have original jurisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy, of any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that— arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps during the period beginning on January 1, 1942, and ending on December 31, 1944; and is brought by any such person, or any heir or survivor of such person, against a railroad that— owned or operated the trains on which the persons were so deported; and was organized as a separate legal entity at the time of the deportation, whether or not any of the equity interest in the railroad was owned by a foreign state.
Sections 1330 and 1601 through 1611 of title 28, United States Code, or any other law limiting the jurisdiction of the United States courts, whether by statute or under common law, shall not preclude any action under subsection (a). An action described in subsection
(a)shall not be barred by a defense that the time for bringing such action has expired under a statute of limitations. This section shall apply to any action pending on January 1, 2002, and to any action commenced on or after that date.