RATHA v. PHATTHANA SEAFOOD CO., LTD.

No. 18-55041.

26 F.4th 1029 (2022)

Keo RATHA; Sem Kosal; Sophea Bun; Yem Ban; Nol Nakry; Phan Sophea; Sok Sang, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PHATTHANA SEAFOOD CO., LTD.; S.S. Frozen Food Co., Ltd.; Rubicon Resources, LLC; Wales and Co. Universe Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Hoffman (argued) and Catherine Sweetser , Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes LLP, Los Angeles, California; Agnieszka M. Fryszman , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Dan Stormer , Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP, Pasadena, California; Anthony DiCaprio , Rye, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Bryan D. Daly (argued), Charles Lawrence Kreindler , and Barbara E. Taylor , Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

William J. Aceves , California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, for Amicus Curiae Human Rights and Development Foundation.

Scott A. Gilmore and Carmen K. Cheung , Center for Justice and Accountability, San Francisco, California; Beth Van Schaack , Stanford University, Stanford, California; Ralph G. Steinhardt , George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Center for Justice and Accountability.

Eli Naduris-Weissman , Rothner Segall & Greenstone, Pasadena, California, for Amici Curiae Solidarity Center, International Labor Rights Forum, Worker Rights Consortium, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, International Labor Recruitment Working Group, and EarthRights International.

Anne M. Voigts , King & Spalding LLP, Palo Alto, California; Amelia G. Yowell , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Freedom Network USA, Human Trafficking Legal Center, Public Counsel, Human Trafficking Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Civil Litigation and Advocacy Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Professor Janie Chuang, and Professor David Abramowitz.

Robert A. DeHaan , McLean, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae National Fisheries Institute.

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Ryan D. Nelson, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Plaintiffs-Appellants are Cambodian villagers who allege that they were trafficked into Thailand and subjected to forced labor at seafood processing factories. Plaintiffs allege that Thai companies perpetrated these offenses, and that companies present in the United States knowingly benefitted from their forced...

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