Gabriel Ashanga JOTA, individually and as guardian for Raul Antonio Ashanga Casteno, Paula Nerida Ashanga Casteno, Christian Ashanga Casteno and Judith Reutegui Casteno, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Republic Of Ecuador and Petroecuador, Movants-Appellants,
v.
TEXACO INC., Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 29, 1998.
Decided October 5, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Cristobal Bonifaz, Amherst, Mass. (John C. Bonifaz, Amherst, Mass.; Joseph C. Kohn, Martin J. D'Urso, Craig W. Hillwig, Kohn Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, Penn.; Amy Damen, Sullivan & Damen, White Plains, NY, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.
Ronald C. Minkoff, New York City (Jonathan S. Abady, Beldock Levine & Hoffman, New York City, on the brief), for movants-appellants.
George S. Branch, New York City (Griffin B. Bell, Daniel J. King, Edward G. Kehoe, Richard T. Marooney, Jr., King & Spalding, New York City; Paul J. Curran, Milton J. Schubin, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City; Lawrence R. Jerz, Texaco Inc., White Plains, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.
(Arthur L. Berney, H. Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School, Newton, Mass.; Elizabeth A. Broderick, Holocaust Human Rights Project, Julie Curan, Environmental Law Society, submitted a brief for amici curiae Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust Human Rights Project, et al.).
(J. Martin Wagner, EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, Cal., submitted a brief for amicus curiae the Sierra Club).
Before: NEWMAN and LEVAL, Circuit Judges, and WEXLER, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal poses important issues concerning the appropriateness of a United States forum for litigation in which a foreign government is significantly interested. Issues of forum non conveniens, comity, and indispensable party all arise in an unusual context in that the foreign country, the Republic of Ecuador, initially expressed vigorous opposition to the maintenance of this litigation in a United States Court and now, after a change...
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