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No longer safe at home: preventing the misuse of federal common law of foreign relations as a defense tactic in private transnational litigation.
From:
Michigan Law Review
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August 1, 2002| Author:
Mulligan, Lumen N.
| COPYRIGHT 2002 Michigan Law Review Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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INTRODUCTION
In an increasingly common litigation strategy, (1) plaintiffs in Patrickson v. Dole Food Company, (2) laborers in the banana industries of Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala and Panama, brought a class-action suit in Hawaii state court against Dole Food and other defendants. (3) Plaintiffs brought only state law causes of action, alleging that they had been harmed by Dole Food's use of DBCP, a toxic pesticide banned from use in the United States. (4) Dole Food r...
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