Ramchandra Adhikari v. Daoud & Partners, et
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge:
In 2004, an Iraqi insurgent group kidnapped and murdered twelve Nepali men as they traveled through Iraq to a United States military base to work for Daoud & Partners (“Daoud”), a Jordanian corporation that had a subcontract with Defendant-Appellee Kellogg Brown Root (“KBR”).1 In 2008, the victims’ families, and one Daoud employee who was not captured (collectively “Plaintiffs”), sued Daoud and KBR. Plaintiffs alleged that the companies “willfully and purposefully formed an enterprise with the goal of procuring cheap labor and increasing profits,” and thereby…
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