DOE v. UNOCAL CORP.

Nos. CV 96-6959 RSWL (BQRx), CV 96-6112 RSWL (BQRx).

110 F.Supp.2d 1294 (2000)

John DOE I, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNOCAL CORP.; Union Oil Company of California; John Imle; and Roger Beach, Defendants. John Roe III, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Unocal Corporation and Union Oil Company of California, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

August 31, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun, De Simone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA, Dan Stormer, Anne Richardson, Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., Pasadena, CA, Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA, Jennifer M. Green, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Julie Shapiro, Tacoma, WA, Rick Herz, Katharine J. Redford, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, Terry Collingsworth, Natacha Thys, David Grunwald, International Labor Rights Fund, Washington, DC, Christopher Krafchak, Krafchak & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, Joseph C. Kohn, Martin J. D'urso, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Cristobal Bonifaz, John C. Bonifaz, Law Offices of Cristobal Bonifaz, Amherst, MA, for plaintiffs.

Richard E. Drooyan, Daniel P. Collins, Douglas A. Axel, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Kristin Linsley Myles, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA, Edwin V. Woodsome, Jr., D. Barclay Edmundson, Howrey & Simon, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants.


ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

LEW, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Pending in this Court are two related actions filed by fifteen villagers from the Tenasserim region of Burma. The remaining defendants in the first action, Roe, et al. v. Unocal Corp., et al., No. CV 96-6112 RSWL (BQRx), are Unocal Corporation and Union Oil Company of California ("Union Oil"). The remaining defendants in the second...

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