Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lisa S. Blatt ( Peter L. Zimroth , Ramon P. Marks , Marcus A. Asner , on the brief), Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC, and New York, NY; ( Jerome S. Hirsch , Joseph N. Sacca , Gary J. Hacker , on the brief), Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Daimler AG.
Sri Srinivasan ( Brian C. Anderson , Irving L. Gornstein , Anton Metlitsky , on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant Ford Motor Company.
Keith R. Hummel , Teena-Ann Sankoorikal , James E. Canning , John E. Lazar , Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant IBM Corporation.
Steig Olson ( Michael D. Hausfeld , Ralph J. Bunche , on the brief), Hausfeld, LLP, New York, NY, and Washington, DC; ( Robert G. Kerrigan , on the brief), Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod, LLP, Pensacola, FL; ( Matt Schultz , on the brief), Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Echsner & Proctor, PA, Pensacola, FL; ( Charles Peter Abrahams , on the brief), Abrahams Kiewitz , Cape Town, South Africa; for Plaintiffs-Appellees Sakwe Balintulo et al.
Paul L. Hoffman ( Adrienne Quarry , on the brief), Schonbrun Desimone Seplow Harrison & Hoffman, Venice, CA; ( Jay J. Rice , Diane E. Sammons , on the brief), Nagel Rice, LLP, Roseland, NJ; ( Tyler R. Giannini , Susan Farbstein , on the brief), International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; ( Judith Brown Chomsky , on the brief), Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA; ( Helen I. Zeldes , on the brief), Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP, San Diego, CA; ( Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza , on the brief), Duma Nokwe Group of Advocates, Sandton, South Africa; ( Michael Francis Osborne , on the brief), Cape Town, South Africa; ( John Sindiso Ngcebetsha , Gugulethu Oscar Madlanga , on the brief), Ngcebetsha Madlanga Attorneys, Randburg, South Africa; ( Medi Mokuena , on the brief), (Mokuena Attorneys, Johannesburg, South Africa); ( Dan Stormer , Anne Richardson , on the brief), Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick LLP, Pasadena, CA; ( Anthony DiCaprio , on the brief), Rye, NY; for Plaintifs-Appellees Lungisile Ntsebeza et al.
Lewis S. Yelin ( Ian Heath Gershengorn , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglass N. Letter , Robert M. Loeb , Appellate Staff, on the brief), Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC; ( Preet Bharara , U.S. Attorney, and David S. Jones , Assistant U.S. Attorney, on the brief), Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY; ( Joan E. Donoghue , on the brief), U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC; for Amicus Curiae United States of America, in support of Plaintifs-Appellees.
Peter R. Rutledge , Athens, GA; Robin S. Conrad , Amar D. Sarwal , National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, DC; for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Klaus Botzet , Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Federal Republic of Germany, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Alan E. Untereiner , Mark T. Stancil , Damon W. Taaffe , Eva A. Temkin , Ariel N. Lavinbuk , Robbins, Russel, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Federation of German Industries, Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, and German American Chambers of Commerce, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Terry Myers , Jeffrey L. Nagel , Gibbons, P.C., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae German Law Professors, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Anthony D. Boccanfuso , Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae International Chamber of Commerce, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Terry Myers , Jeffrey L. Nagel , Gibbons, P.C., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae International Law Professors, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Jeffrey A. Lamken , Evan A. Young , Baker Botts L.L.P., Washington, DC, and Austin, TX, for Amici Curiae National Foreign Trade Council, USA*Engage, U.S. Council for International Business, Organization for International Investment, and National Association of Manufacturers, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Julian Ku , Hofstra University Law School, Hempstead, NY; Michael D. Ramsey , University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, CA; for Amici Curiae Law Professors of International Law and U.S. Foreign Relations Law, in support of Defendants-Appellants.
Marco B. Simons , Richard L. Herz , Jonathan G. Kaufman , EarthRights International, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae EarthRights International, in support of Plaintifs-Appellees.
Steven A. Kanner , Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, Bannockburn, IL, for Amici Curiae Former Commissioners and Committee Members of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Piper Hendricks , World Organization for Human Rights USA, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae International Center for Transitional Justice, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
William J. Aceves , California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, for Amici Curiae International Law Scholars, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Robert N. Kaplan , Gregory K. Arenson , Kaplan Fox Kilsheimer LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Joseph E. Stiglitz, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Maria C. LaHood , Katherine Gallagher , Meena Jagannath , Blinne Ni Ghralaigh , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Non-Governmental Organizations Committed to Human Rights, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Renae D. Steiner , Heins Mills & Olson, P.L.C., Minneapolis, MN, for Amici Curiae Professor John Dugard and Advocate Anton Katz, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Elizabeth J. Cabraser , Steve M. Swerdlow , Lieff Cabraser , Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, CA; Agnieszka M. Fryszman , Maureen E. McOwen , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC; and Jennifer M. Green , University of Minnesota School of Law, Minneapolis, MN; for Amici Curiae Professors of Civil Procedure, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Bernard Persky , Kellie Lerner , Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Professors of Federal Jurisdiction and Legal History, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Eugene A. Spector , Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Amicus Curiae South African Council of Churches, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Terry Collingsworth , Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Congress of South African Trade Unions, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Richard L. Herz , Marco B. Simons , Jonathan G. Kaufman , EarthRights International, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae U.S. Diplomats, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Luis Romero Requena , European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, for Amicus Curiae European Commission.
David B. Goldstein , Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Republic of South Africa.
Nigel Sheinwald , British Embassy Washington, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Before CABRANES, HALL, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
