Legal Opinion
Palacios v. THE COCA-COLA CO.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 19, 2010No. 10 Civ. 3120(RJS)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
RICHARD J. SULLIVAN, District Judge:
Plaintiffs, Guatemalan labor activists and their family members, bring this action against Defendants, The Coca-Cola Company (“Coca-Cola” or “Defendant”) and ten unnamed Coca-Cola agents, seeking redress for violence that occurred in Guatemala. 1 Now before the Court is Defendant Coca-Cola’s motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens (“FNC”). For the reasons that follow, the motion is granted.
I. Background
A. Facts 2
This case concerns allegations of violence directed at two distinct groups of Plaintiffs. The Court will briefly recite the…
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