United States Second Circuit

Claims alleging that pollution from defendant's copper mining, refining, and smelting operations in and around Peru caused plaintiffs' severe lung disease, are not actionable under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1350.1.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2003
• Published 09/02/2003

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, JACOBS and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wallace A. Showman, Taub & Showman LLP, New York, N.Y. (Malcolm S. Taub, Taub & Showman, New York, NY, Andrew C. Shirrmeister III and Dana S. Speer, Houston, TX, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Richard L. Herz, EarthRights International, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae International Law Scholars.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter J. Nickles (Thomas L. Cubbage III, of counsel, Oscar M. Garibaldi and Elie Honig, on the brief), Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee.