IN RE WORLD WAR II ERA JAPANESE FORCED LABOR LITIGATION

Nos. MDL-1347, 00-3174, 00-999, 00-1455, 00-0064, 00-2796, 99-5042, 99-1554, 99-4737, 00-0189, 00-5484, 00-0188, 00-4383, 00-2057.

114 F.Supp.2d 939 (2000)

In re WORLD WAR II ERA JAPANESE FORCED LABOR LITIGATION. This Document Relates To: Alfano v Mitsubishi Corp, CD Cal No 00-3174, Corre v Mitsui & Co, CD Cal No 00-999, Eneriz v Mitsui & Co, CD Cal No 00-1455, Heimbuch, et al. v Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd, ND Cal No 00-0064, Hutchison v Mitsubishi Materials Corp, CD Cal No 00-2796, King v Nippon Steel Corp, ND Cal No 99-5042, Levenberg v Nippon Sharyo, Ltd, ND Cal No 99-1554, Levenberg v Nippon Sharyo, Ltd, ND Cal No 99-4737, Poole v Nippon Steel Corp, CD Cal No 00-0189, Price v Mitsubishi Corp., CD Cal No 00-5484, Solis v Nippon Steel Corp., CD Cal No 00-0188, Titherington v Japan Energy Corp, CD Cal No 00-4383, Wheeler v Mitsui & Co, Ltd, CD Cal No 00-2057.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

September 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Girard, Anthony Lee, Gordon Fauth, Jr., Girard & Green, San Francisco, CA, Jay Eisenhofer, John Kairis, Jacob Frankel, Grant & Eisenhofer, Wilmington, DE, Lionel Glancy, Lionel Glancy Law Offices, Los Angeles, CA, David Casey, Jr., Bonnie Kane, Herman, Middleton, Casey & Kitchens, San Diego, CA, Maurey Herman, Herman, Middleton, Casey & Kitchens, New Orleans, LA, James Parkinson, Attorney at Law, Palm Desert, CA, Jeffrey Squire, Jill Manning, Kirby, McInerney & Squire, San Francisco, CA, Kevin Roddy, Hagens Berman, Los Angeles, CA, Steve Berman, Jeffrey Sprung, Hagens Berman, Seattle, WA, John Bartko, William Edlund, Robert Bunzel, Christopher Sullivan, Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, San Francisco, CA, William Lerach, Patrick Daniels, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, California, Albert Meyerhoff, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Los Angeles, CA, Eddie Yoon, Attoney at Law, Lakewood, WA, Joe Reeder, Allen Foster, Ron Klineman, Greenberg Traurig, Washington, DC, Daniel Leib, Law Office of Daniel Lieb, Beverly Hills, CA, Steven Glickman, Glickman & Glickman, Beverly Hills, CA, Haewon Shin, Law Offices of Haewon Shin, Los Angeles, CA, Henry Rossbacher, Rossbacher & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, Robert Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, PA, Scott Wellman, Wellman & Warren, Irvine, CA, Scott Wellman, Wellman & Warren, Laguna Hills, CA, John Van Dyke, Attorney at Law, Honolulu, HI, Edward Fagan, Fagan & D'Avino, New York City, Michael Witti, Law Offices of Michael Witti, Mochen (Bogenhasuen), Germany, Henry Burstyner, Glennen, Burstyner & Co., Australia, Rodrigo Domingo, Jr., Domingo & Dizon, Makati City, Philippines, Joseph Cotchett, Bruce Simon, Steven Williams, Gwendolyn Giblin, Cotchett, Pitre & Simon, Burlingame, CA, Lourdes Tancinco, Tancinco Law Offices, San Francisco, CA, David Scott, Neil Rothstein, Scott & Scott, Colchester, CT, Thomas Galloway, Galloway & Associates, Boulder, CO, Michael Goldstein, Law Offices of Michael Goldstein, Cardiff, CA, Li Yang, Law Offices of Li Yang, New York City, Eli Warach, Attorney at Law, Hackensack, NJ, Howard Finkelstein, Jeffrey Krinsk, Finkelstein & Krinsk, San Diego, California, Jonathan Cuneo, The Cuneo Law Group, Washington, D.C., Venus Soltan, Soltan & Associates, Newport Beach, CA, Matthew Digby, Heidi Leider, Bingham Dana, Los Angeles, CA, Peter Ivan Ostroff, Mark Haddad, Lee Auerbach, Sidley & Austin, Los Angeles, CA, Bruce Johnson, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Seattle, WA, Martin Fineman, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, San Francisco, CA, Arthur Harrigan, Richard Holmquist, Danielson, Harrigan & Tollefson, Seattle, WA, Robert Sacks, Adam Paris, Sullivan & Cromwell, Los Angeles, CA, Margaret Pfeiffer, Stacey Stoller, Sullivan & Cromwell, Washington, D.C., Arne Wagner, Linda Shostak, Lloyd Aubry, Jr., Kathryn Davis, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA, Barbara Croutch, Michael Finnegan, Nathan Spatz, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Los Angeles, CA, Shannon Hansen, Mark Cramer, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, Thomas Yannucci, James Basile, Brant Bishop, Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., Nathan Lane III, Joseph Meckes, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, San Francisco, CA, Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, David Balabanian, Thomas Hixon, Eric Pierson, Rebecca Archer, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, CA, Todd Green, O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, CA, John Beisner, John Niblock, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, D.C., R.R. Fredeking, II, Fredeking & Fredeking, Huntington, WV, Junji Masuda, Masuda & Ejiri, New York City, Douglas Mirell, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles, CA, Paul Doyle, Kelley Drye & Warren, New York City, Sabina Helton, Kelley Drye & Warren, Los Angeles, CA, Stephen Bomse, Neil Popovic, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, Catherine Ysrael, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Los Angeles, CA, David Anderson, Vincent Garvey, Martha Rubio, Department of Justice Civil Division-Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, Michael Engelberg, MD, American Cener for Civil Justice, Brooklyn, NY.


ORDER NO 4

WALKER, District Judge.

On December 23, 1941, after mounting a brave resistance against an overwhelming foe, the small American garrison on Wake Island in the South Pacific surrendered to Imperial Japanese forces. James King, a former United States Marine, was among the troops and civilians taken prisoner by the invaders. He was ultimately shipped to Kyushu, Japan, where he spent the remainder of the war toiling by day as a slave laborer in a...

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