Legal Opinion
Romero v. Drummond Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 22, 2008No. 07-14090PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
These appeals present a host of issues arising out of litigation about whether executives of Drummond, Ltd., the Colombi an subsidiary of a coal mining company in Alabama, paid paramilitary operatives to torture and assassinate leaders of a Colombian trade union, SINTRAMIENER-GETICA. In 2002 and 2003, the union and several of its leaders and relatives of deceased leaders sued Drummond and its parent company and executives under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, 106 Stat. 73, codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1350, note. The…
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