Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

ELR Citation: ELR 20003
No(s). 03-21222 (5th Cir. Dec 21, 2004)

The Fifth Circuit reversed a district court's denial of a motion to compel attendance and produce documents and its quashing of a subpoena directed to a non-party witness in a class action suit alleging that oil companies cooperated with and assisted the Nigerian military in the brutal repression of...