Legal Opinion
Delgado v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 13, 2000No. 95-21074, 97-20060PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated appeals, 1 Plaintiffs-Appellants (“Plaintiffs”), who are several thousand foreign agricultural workers, challenge the district court’s orders dismissing on forum non conveniens, five of six cases removed from Texas state court. Plaintiffs assert that the removals were improper and that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. Concluding that removal and jurisdiction were proper in all of the five dismissed cases, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Overview
Plaintiffs originally filed all six cases in various Texas state courts, seeking damages…
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