Legal Opinion
Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 16, 2002No. Docket Nos. 01-7756L, 01-7758CPublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, Circuit Judge.
These are consolidated appeals from judgments of the United States District *473Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) dismissing two putative class actions for forum non conveniens. Plaintiffs are residents of the Oriente region of Ecuador and an adjoining area in Peru. Defendant is Texaco, Inc. (“Texaco”), a United States-based oil company, which, at the pertinent time, was headquartered in New York. The complaints allege environmental and personal injuries arising out of Texaco’s oil exploration and extraction operations in the Ori-ente region…
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