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DELGADO v. SHELL OIL CO.

Nos. 95-21074, 97-20060.

231 F.3d 165 (2000)

Franklin Rodriguez DELGADO, et al. (Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated), Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY; Dow Chemical Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (Individually and as successor to Occidental Chemical Company and Occidental Chemical and Agricultural Products, Inc.); Standard Fruit Co.; Standard Fruit and Steamship Company; Dole Food Company, Inc.; Dole Fresh Fruit Co.; Chiquita Brands, Inc.; Chiquita Brands International, Inc.; Del Monte Tropical Fruit Company, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Del Monte Fresh Produce, N.A., Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Dead Sea Bromine Company, Ltd.; Ameribrom, Inc., Third Party Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. Jorge Colindres Carcamo, et al. (Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated), Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Shell Oil Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (Individually and as successor to Occidental Chemical and Occidental Chemical and Agricultural Products, Inc.); Standard Fruit Company; Standard Fruit and Steamship Company; Dole Food Company, Inc.; Dole Fresh Fruit Company; Chiquita Brands, Inc.; Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Dow Chemical Company, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Del Monte Fresh Produce Company (sued as Del Monte Tropical Fruit Company); Dead Sea Bromine Company, Ltd.; and Ameribrom, Inc., Third Party Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Del Monte Fresh Produce, N.A., Inc., Third Party Defendant-Fourth Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Bromine Compounds, Ltd., Fourth Party Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant. Juan Ramon Valdez, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Shell Oil Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (Individually and as successor to Occidental Chemical Company and Occidental Chemical and Agricultural Products, Inc.); Standard Fruit Company; Standard Fruit and Steamship Company; Dole Food Company, Inc.; Dole Fresh Fruit Company; Chiquita Brands, Inc.; Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Dow Chemical Company, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Del Monte Fresh Produce, N.A.; Del Monte Tropical Fruit Company; Dead Sea Bromine Company, Ltd.; Ameribrom, Inc., Third Party Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. Isae Carcamo, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Dow Chemical Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (Individually and as successor to Occidental Chemical Company and Occidental Chemical and Agricultural Products, Inc.); Standard Fruit Company; Standard Fruit and Steamship Company; Dole Food Company, Inc.; Dole Fresh Fruit Company, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Shell Oil Company, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Dead Sea Bromine Company, Ltd.; Ameribrom, Inc., Third Party Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. Ramon Rodriguez Rodriguez, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shell Oil Company; Standard Fruit & Steamship Company; Chiquita Brands; Chiquita Brands International, Inc.; Standard Fruit Company, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Dole Food Company, Inc.; Dole Fresh Fruit Co.; Dow Chemical Company; Occidental Chemical, Defendants-Appellees, v. Bromine Compounds, Ltd.; AMVAC Chemical Company; Dead Sea Bromine Company, Ltd., Third Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Revised October 23, 2000.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Siegel, Law Office of Charles S. Siegel, Fred R. Misko, Jr., Law Office of Fred Misko, Jr., Dallas, TX, Stephen D. Susman, Michael A. Lee, Susman Godfrey, David S. Siegel (argued), Kirk, Gottesman & Lee, Houston, TX, for Franklin Rodriguez Delgado, et al., Jorge Colindres Carcamo, et al., Juan Ramon Valdez, et al., Isae Carcamo, Eduardo Rivas Ledezma, Miguel Amaya Lazo, et al., Nelson Rivas Ramirez and Ramon Rodriguez Rodriguez.

M. Sofia Adrogue, Susman Godfrey, Houston, TX, for Franklin Rodriguez Delgado, et al., Jorge Colindres Carcamo, et al., Juan Ramon Valdez, et al., Isae Carcamo, Eduardo Rivas Ledezma, Miguel Amaya Lazo, et al. and Nelson Rivas Ramirez.

Katherine M. Ginzburg, Susman Godfrey, Houston, TX, for Ramon Rodriguez Rodriguez.

Scott M. Hendler, Austin, TX, Christian Hancock Hartley, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC, for Eduardo Rivas Ledezma and Nelson Rivas Ramirez.

John L. Hill, Jr., John Michael Dorman, Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Houston, TX, R. Burt Ballanfant, Houston, TX, Richard W. Staff, Harrison, Bettis & Staff, Houston, TX, for Shell Oil Co.

F. Walter Conrad, Jr., Michael L. Brem, Macey Reasoner Stokes, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, for Dow Chemical Co.

D. Ferguson McNiel, Charles W. Schwartz, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for Occidental Chemical Corp.

Terence M. Murphy, James Stanley Teater, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, Robert H. Klonoff (argued), Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Eric Allen Grant, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Standard Fruit Co., Standard Fruit and Steamship Co., Dole Food Co., Inc. and Dole Fresh Fruit Co.

Samuel Eugene Stubbs, William D. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, for Chiquita Brands, Inc. and Chiquita Brands Intern., Inc.

James J. Juneau, Dallas, TX, Amy W. Schulman, Boaz S. Morag, Robert T. Greig, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, Sara D. Schotland, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC, for Del Monte Fresh Produce and Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co.

Thomas J. Brandt, Robert A. Shults, Bradley Wayne Cole, Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, Houston, TX, Peter R. Paden (argued), Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman, New York City, for Ameribrom, Inc., Dead Sea Bromine Co., Ltd. and Bromine Compounds, Ltd.

Before GARWOOD, WIENER and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated appeals,1 Plaintiffs-Appellants ("Plaintiffs"), who are several thousand foreign agricultural workers, challenge the district court's orders dismissing on forum non conveniens, five of six cases removed from Texas state court. Plaintiffs assert that the removals were improper and that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. Concluding that removal and jurisdiction were proper...

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