Legal Opinion
Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 8, 2011No. 09-7125, 09-7127, 09-7134, 09-7135PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
Opinion dissenting in part by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
Pursuant to a contract with the Indonesian government, Exxon Mobil Corporation, a United States corporation, and several of its wholly owned subsidiaries (hereinafter “Exxon”) operated a large natural gas extraction and processing facility in the Aceh province of Indonesia in *152000-2001. Plaintiffs-appellants are fifteen Indonesian villagers from the Aceh territory. Eleven villagers filed a complaint in 2001 alleging that Exxon’s security forces committed murder,…
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