ALDANA v. DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE N.A., INC.

No. 12-16143.

741 F.3d 1349 (2014)

Angel Enrique Villeda ALDANA, Jorge Augustin Palma Romero, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE N.A., INC., Bandegua, Compania De Desarrollo De Guatemala, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 6, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence Patrick Collingsworth , Natacha Thys, Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, DC, D. Marcus Braswell, Jr. , Robert A. Sugarman , Sugarman & Susskind, PA, Coral Gables, FL, William R. Scherer, III, Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lazaro Fernandez, Jr. , Brian Joseph Stack , Mindy Lee Fallot , Stack Fernandez Anderson & Harris, PA, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before MARCUS and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and HODGES, District Judge.


MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

For the third time, we take up this case involving Guatemalan labor organizers who claim that Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc. ("Del Monte, Inc.") and its subsidiaries were responsible for armed kidnapping, intimidation, and torture on a Guatemalan banana plantation in 1999. When last we met, this Court affirmed the dismissal of Plaintiffs' claims for forum non conveniens. Plaintiffs since filed a complaint in Guatemala, but the local court...

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