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WIWA v. ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO.

Docket Nos. 99-7223, 99-7245.

226 F.3d 88 (2000)

Ken WIWA, individually and as Administrator of the Estate of his deceased father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Owens Wiwa, and Blessing Kpuinen, individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of her husband, John Kpuinen, and Jane Doe, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM COMPANY, and Shell Transport and Trading Company, P.L.C., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 14, 2000

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA (Jennifer M. Green, Beth Stephens, and Richard Herz, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, N.Y. on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Rory O. Millson, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, N.Y. (Sandra C. Goldstein on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Before: OAKES, LEVAL and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

LEVAL, Judge:

This case concerns the application of forum non conveniens doctrine to suits under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, involving claimed abuses of the international law of human rights. Plaintiffs are three Nigerian émigrés, and a woman identified only as Jane Doe to protect her safety, who allege that they (or in some cases their deceased next of kin) suffered grave human rights abuses at the hands of the Nigerian...

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