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IN RE ESTATE OF MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION

No. MDL 840.

910 F.Supp. 1460 (1995)

In re ESTATE OF Ferdinand E. MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION. This Document Relates to all Cases.

United States District Court, D. Hawai`i.

November 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Savett, Klein & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Sherry P. Broder, Honolulu, Hawai`i, for Class Plaintiffs.

Paul Hoffman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Randall H. Scarlett, Brown, Monzione, Fabbro, Zakaria & Scarlett, San Francisco, California, Melvin Belli, Caesar Belli, San Francisco, CA, for Individual Plaintiffs.

James Pau Linn, Linn & Helms, Oklahoma City, OK, Lex R. Smith, Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda, Honolulu, Hawai`i, for defendants.

OPINION

REAL, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Victims of torture, summary execution and disappearance filed suits for damages, in the form of a class action as well as individual direct actions, against the Estate of the former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand E. Marcos (MARCOS), for human rights violations. Specifically, the violations are alleged to have occurred during the period in which MARCOS, as President of the Philippines,...

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