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BANO v. UNION CARBIDE CORP.

Docket No. 00-9250.

273 F.3d 120 (2001)

Sajida BANO, Haseena Bi, Sunil Kumar, Dr. Stanley Norton, Asad Khan, Shiv Narayan Maithil, Devendra Kumar Yadav, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, (BGPMUS), Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha,(GPNPBSM), Bhopal Gas Peedit Stationery Karmachari Sangh,(BGPMSKS), Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti,(BGPSSS), Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA), On behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION and Warren Anderson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 15, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth F. McCallion, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow, LLP (H. Rajan Sharma, of counsel), New York, NY; Law Offices of Curtis Trinko, LLP, New York, NY; Richard L. Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

William A. Krohley, Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP (William C. Heck, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

James Silk, New Haven, CT, submitted a brief for Amici Curiae Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic, The Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Center for International Environmental Law.

Before: LEVAL, POOLER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

SACK, Circuit Judge:

This litigation is the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history's worst industrial catastrophe: the 1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Those...

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