United States Second Circuit
BIGIO v. THE COCA-COLA CO., 98-9058
A private party is not liable under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 USC 1350, for its failure to stop unlawful state action, even where it benefits from the state action.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/01/1999
- Decided 12/08/2000
- Published 12/08/2000
Judges
- Before McLAUGHLIN, JACOBS, and SACK, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Nathan Lewin,Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., Washington, DC (Grant R. Vinik, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., of counsel; Edward L. Sadowsky and Andrew M. Zeitlin, Tenzer, Greenblatt, L.L.P., New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Heather J. Friedman, New Haven, CT, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic., Robert L. Weinberg, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, American Section.
- For Appellees:
- William M. Dreyer, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (Laurence V. Senn, Jr., and Richard F. Hans, King & Spalding, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.