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ECUADORIAN PLAINTIFFS v. CHEVRON CORP.

No. 10-20389.

619 F.3d 373 (2010)

ECUADORIAN PLAINTIFFS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHEVRON CORPORATION, Petitioner-Appellee, v. 3TM International, Inc.; 3TM Consulting, L.L.C., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. Andrew F. Wilson (argued), Ilann Margalit Maazel , Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady, L.L.P., New York City, for Ecuadorian Plaintiffs.

Andrea Ellen Neuman , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Irvine, CA, Thomas Henderson Dupree, Jr. , Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Scott Alan Edelman , Principal Lit. Counsel, Julian WingKai Poon , Wiilliam Edward Thomson, III , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Ashley E. Johnson , Samantha A. Lunn , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P, Dallas, TX, for Chevron Corp.

Kristin Nicole Wallis , Doré & Associates, P.C., Houston, TX, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and CRONE, District Judge.

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

A group of Ecuadorian citizens (the "plaintiffs") who have sued Chevron Corporation in Ecuador appeal from the district court's order allowing Chevron to depose their consultant, 3TM. We affirm the district court's order directing 3TM to submit to a foundational deposition, subject to the limitation described below.

I.

In 2003, the plaintiffs sued Chevron in Ecuador, seeking to hold Chevron liable as the successor to Texaco...

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