TAIHEIYO CEMENT CORPORATION et al., Petitioners,
v.
The SUPERIOR COURT of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, Respondent.
Jae Won Jeong, Real Party in Interest.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 15, 2003.
Rehearing Denied February 11, 2003.
Review Granted April 30, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bingham Dana, Matthew E. Digby, Heidi A. Leider; Bingham McCutchen, Matthew E. Digby, Heidi A. Leider, Los Angeles; Masuda & Ejiri and Junji Masuda; Loeb & Loeb, Douglas E. Mirell, Joseph Geisman, Century City; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Martin Stein, Robin Meadow and Laura Boudreau, Los Angeles, for Petitioners Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, Taiheiyo Cement U.S.A., Inc., California Portland Cement Company and Glacier Northwest, Inc.
O'Melveny & Myers and John F. Niblock, Wash., Dist. of Columbia; McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen and David M. Balabanian, Boston, MA; Morrison & Foerster, Lloyd Aubry and Arne D. Wagner, San Francisco; Pillsbury Winthrop and Barbara Croutch; Bingham Dana and Matthew Digby; Bingham McCutchen and Matthew Digby; Sullivan & Cromwell and Robert A. Sacks, Los Angeles, for Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A. Corp., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., Mitsubishi International Corp., Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., IHI, Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc., Mitsui Mining Co., Ltd., Mitsui Mining U.S.A., Inc., Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel U.S.A., Inc., Nippon Steel Trading Co., Ltd., and Nippon Steel Trading America, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.
John S. Gordon, United States Attorney; Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; James G. Hergen and Lara A. Ballard, United States Department of State; Mark Stern, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier and Kathleen Kane, United States Department of Justice, for the United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.
Fleishman & Fisher, Barry A. Fisher, Los Angeles, David Grosz; Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Morris A. Ratner, San Francisco, Bill Lann Lee, Los Angeles, Scott P. Nealy; Blumenthal & Markham and David R. Markham, San Diego; Law Offices of Haewon Shin and Haewon Shin; Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Michael D. Hausfeld, Wash., Dist. of Columbia, Agnieszka M. Fryszman; Kenneth T. Haan & Associates and Kenneth T. Haan; Lim, Ruger & Kim, Christopher Kim, Los Angeles, and Lisa J. Yang, for Real Party in Interest Jae Won Jeong.
Strumwasser & Woocher and Fredric D. Woocher, Santa Monica; Jack Goldsmith and Erwin Chemerinsky, for the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, the Korean-American Federation of Los Angeles, the Korean American Coalition, and the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.
Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman, Venice, and Paul L. Hoffman, for the Honorable John L. Burton, Herbert J. Wesson, Jr., Tom Hayden, Adam B. Schiff, Gil Cedillo, Wilma Chan, Dr. Judy Chu, Mike Honda, Carol Liu, and George Nakano, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General for the State of California, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Z. Ysrael, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Phyllis Cheng, Deputy Attorney General, for Attorney General Bill Lockyer as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.
BOLAND, J.
INTRODUCTION
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