SALDANA v. OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP.

No. 12-55484.

774 F.3d 544 (2014)

Flor Marina Chavarro SALDANA; Hector Julio Martinez Chavarro; Flor Aide Martinez Chavarro; Ana Milena Martinez Chavarro; Lucy Esperanza Gonza Santafe; Paola Andrea Goyenech Gonzalez; Eufrosina Del Carmen Goye G.; Rosa Maria Ramirez Gomez; Nelson Prieto Ramirez; Mireya Prieto Ramirez; Yudith Prieto Ramirez; Maximina Chamucero De Prieto; Belsy Yasmin Solano; Jazmin Alejandra Prieto Solano; H.N.M.C.; T.K.G.G.; R.A.P.S.; J.E.P.S., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 15, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence P. Collingsworth (argued), Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Matthew T. Kline (argued) and Dimitri D. Portnoi , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Jonathan Hacker and Anton Metlitsky , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, STEPHEN S. TROTT, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Family members of three union leaders killed in Colombia in August 2004 by members of the Colombian National Army's ("CNA") 18th Brigade brought this lawsuit in 2011 in Los Angeles, California, against Occidental Petroleum Corporation ("Occidental"), a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles. Plaintiffs' complaint...

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