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IN RE ESTATE OF MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION

No. MDL 840.

910 F.Supp. 1470 (1995)

In re ESTATE OF Ferdinand E. MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION. This Document Relates to all Cases.

United States District Court, D. Hawai`i.

November 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Savett, Klein & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, and Sherry P. Broder, Honolulu, Hawai`i, for Class Plaintiffs.

Paul Hoffman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Randall H. Scarlett, Brown, Monzione, Fabbro, Zakaria & Scarlett, San Francisco, CA, and Melvin Belli and Caesar Belli, San Francisco, CA, for Individual Plaintiffs.

James Pau Linn, Linn & Helms, Oklahoma City, OK, and Lex R. Smith, Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda, Honolulu, Hawai`i, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

REAL, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Close to 10,000 plaintiffs brought suit against the former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand E. Marcos ("Marcos"), for damages resulting from torture, summary execution and disappearance, in the form of a class action as well as individual actions. Marcos died while the cases were pending, and the Estate of Marcos ("Estate") was substituted in Marcos' place, with his widow, Imelda R. Marcos...

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