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MASTAFA v. CHEVRON CORP.

No. 10-5258-cv.

770 F.3d 170 (2014)

Saadya MASTAFA, Kafia Ismail, Batul Nur, Afaf Rasool, Zahra Rasool, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHEVRON CORPORATION, Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Murray , Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A., Sandusky, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Meir Feder , Thomas E. Lynch , Jones Day, New York, NY; Gregory G. Katsas , Michael A. Carvin , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee Chevron Corp.

Robert S. Bennett , Ellen Kennedy , Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jennifer L. Spaziano , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas.

Terrence Patrick Collingsworth , Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Human Rights Watch and Labor Organizations.

Before: CABRANES, STRAUB, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

The question presented is whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) properly dismissed the complaint of five Iraqi nationals who claim that they and their family members were tortured, imprisoned, and in some cases executed, by the Saddam Hussein regime. Plaintiffs filed suit in July 2010 against defendants Chevron Corp. and Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas (...

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