Legal Opinion
in All Cases which have been Consolidated into this Proceeding by Order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation v. Union Carbide Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 14, 1987No. Nos. 301, 383 and 496, Docket 86-7517, 86-7589 and 86-7637PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:*
This appeal raises the question of whether thousands of claims by citizens of India and the Government of India arising out of the most devastating industrial disaster in history — the deaths of over 2,000 persons and injuries of over 200,000 caused by lethal gas known as methyl isocyanate which was released from a chemical plant operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, India — should be tried in the United States or in India. The Southern District of New York, John F. Keenan, Judge, granted the motion of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), a defendant…
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