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Attorney Beatrice Lindstrom (R) addresses the media outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan October 23, 2014 in New York. Lindstrom discussed the case against the UN over the Cholera Epidemic in Haiti. Federal Judge Paul Oetken on Thursday deferred a decision on whether the United Nations can be sued over a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti after hearing arguments for and against its immunity. Oetken presided over a hearing in New York that focused on technical interpretations of provisions in the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. Cholera has killed more than 8,500 people and infected more than 700,000 in Haiti since 2010, when the plaintiffs allege it was introduced by UN peacekeepers, dispatched in the wake of a devastating earthquake. AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)