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ADHIKARI v. KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT, INC.

No. 15-20225.

845 F.3d 184 (2017)

Ramchandra ADHIKARI; Devaka Adhikari; Jit Bahdur Khadka; Radhika Khadka; Bindeshore Singh Koiri; Pukari Devi Koiri; Chittij Limbu; Kamala Thapa Magar; Maya Thapa Magar; Bhakti Maya Thapa Magar; Tara Shrestha; Nischal Shrestha; Dil Bahadur Shrestha; Ganga Maya Shrestha; Satya Narayan Shah; Ram Naryan Thakur; Samundri Devi Thakur; Jitini Devi Thakur; Bhim Bahadur Thapa; Bishnu Maya Thapa; Bhuji Thapa; Kul Prasad Thapa; Buddi Prasad Gurung, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT, INCORPORATED; Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Incorporated; KBR, Incorporated; KBR Holdings, L.L.C.; Kellogg Brown & Root L.L.C.; KBR Technical Services, Incorporated; Kellogg Brown & Root International, Incorporated; Service Employees International, Incorporated; Overseas Employment Administration; Overseas Administration Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed January 3, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Agnieszka M. Fryszman , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Paul Lindsey Hoffman , Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman, L.L.P., Venice, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Geoffrey L. Harrison, Esq. , Richard W. Hess , Susman Godfrey, L.L.P., Warren W. Harris , Yvonne Y. Ho, Esq. , Jeffrey L. Oldham , Bracewell, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

James C. Harrington, Esq. , Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Professors of Civil Procedure and Federal Courts.

William Aceves , California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, for Amicus Curiae International Law Scholars.

Tyler Richard Giannini , Harvard Law School, International Human Rights Clinic, Cambridge, MA, for Amicus Curiae Professors of Legal History.

Richard D. Snyder , Fredrickson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Amicus Curiae Freedom Network (USA).

Deepak Gupta , Gupta Wessler, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Richard Blumenthal.

Marissa Ann Vahlsing, Esq. , EarthRights International, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae EarthRights International, Center for Constitutional Rights.

Thomas More Flanagan , Andy Joseph Dupre , Camille Elise Gauthier , Flanagan Partners, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Amicus Curiae Retired Military Officers.

Russell Lasser Kornblith , Sanford Heisler, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Abukar Hassan Ahmed , Dr. Juan Romagoza Arce , Zita Cabello , Aziz Mohamed Deria , Carlos Mauricio, Cecilia Santos Moran, Gloria Reyes, Oscar Reyes, Zenaida Velasquez, Bashe Abdi Yousuf.

Andrew John Pincus , Archis Ashok Parasharami , Mayer Brown, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, PRADO, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.

In 2004, an Iraqi insurgent group kidnapped and murdered twelve Nepali men as they traveled through Iraq to a United States military base to work for Daoud & Partners ("Daoud"), a Jordanian corporation that had a subcontract with Defendant-Appellee Kellogg Brown Root ("KBR").1 In 2008...

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