HE NAM YOU v. JAPAN

No. C 15-03257 WHA.

150 F.Supp.3d 1140 (2015)

HE NAM YOU and Kyung Soon Kim, for themselves and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. JAPAN; Hirohito; Akihito; Nobuske Kishi; Shinzo Abe; NYK Line (North America); Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha; Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.; Nissan North America, Inc.; Toyota Motor Corporation; Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hitachi America, Ltd.; Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A., Inc.; Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation; Mitsubishi Corporation (America); Mitsubishi Group; Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.; Mitsui & Co. Ltd.; Okamoto Industries, Inc.; Sankei Shimbun, Co., Ltd.; and Does 1-1000, inclusive, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

Signed December 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hume Joseph Jung , Joseph Jung & Associates, Oakland, CA, Hyungjin Kim , San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Thaddeus John Stauber , Jason P. Gonzalez , Jessica Nicole Walker , Sarah Erickson Andre , Nixon Peabody LLP, Perlette Michele Jura , Ryan Stephen Appleby , Gibson, Dunn Crutcher LLP, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, CA, Kimball Richard Anderson , Samuel Mendenhall , Sarah A. Krajewski , Winston and Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL, Brendan P. Cullen , Nathaniel Lyon Green , Sullivan & Cromwell, Palo Alto, CA, Robert Allan Mittelstaedt , Caroline Nason Mitchell , David L. Wallach , Jones Day, Colin C. West , David M. Balabanian , Katie Rose Glynn , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Herman Joseph Hoying , Ad Astra Law Group, Krista M. Enns , Kimball R. Anderson , Winston & Strawn LLP, Joseph Anthony Meckes , Nathan Lane, III , Squire Patton Boggs LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants.


ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS AND GRANTING IN PART NISSAN NORTH AMERICA'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

INTRODUCTION

In this putative class action for personal injury and crimes against humanity during the Second World War, six of twenty defendants move to dismiss all...

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