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OSORIO v. DOW CHEMICAL CO.

No. 10-11143.

635 F.3d 1277 (2011)

Miguel Angel Sanchez OSORIO, Juan Evenor Tercero Prado, Victorino Rodriguez, Felix Pedro Hernandez Estrada, Lucio Hernandez Lainez, Mariano De Jesus Malta Navarro, Apolonio Mariano Mejia, Ambrosio Aristides Zavala, Isabel De Angeles Espinoza Araica, Natividad Gomez, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Occidental Chemical Corporation, a New York Corporation, Dole Food Company, Inc., Shell Oil Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 25, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel D. Eaton , Carolina Maharbiz , Steven Craig Marks , Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid , Aaron S. Podhurst , Ramon Alvaro Rasco , Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, FL, Charles Benton Musslewhite, Law Office of Benton Musslewhite, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael P. Foradas , Jeffrey J. Zeiger , Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Chicago, IL, Michael Lamar Brem , Schirrmeister, Diaz-Arrastia Brem, LLP, Houston, TX, Jeffrey Gutchess , Christopher N. Johnson , Andriana Riviere-Badell , Martin Leonard Steinberg , Hunton & Williams, LLP, Ronald P. Weil , The Law Offices of Ronald Weil, P.A., James D. Wing , Holland & Knight, LLP, Natalie Jessica Carlos , Julie Feigeles , Neil P. Linden, Yoss, LLP, Miami, FL, James T. McLaughlin, Jr. , Coral Gables, FL, Andrea E. Neuman , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Irvine, CA, Guy S. Lipe , D. Ferguson McNeil , III, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston, TX, Barbara Mary Arco , Russo Appellate Firm, P.A., South Miami, FL, Theodore Joseph Boutrous, Jr. , Scott A. Edelman , William Edward Thomson , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Yolanda Orozco , Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA, David W. Ogden , Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and FAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal concerns the enforceability, under Florida law, of an over-$97 million judgment a Nicaraguan court awarded 150 Nicaraguan agricultural workers, the plaintiffs here, against Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") and Dole Food Company, Inc. ("Dole"), the defendants. The judgment compensated these workers for the physical and psychological injuries they purportedly sustained from exposure to a pesticide, dibromochloropropane, Dow supplied and Dole used...

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