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AGUINDA v. TEXACO, INC.

Nos. 93 Civ. 7527(JSR), 94 Civ. 9266(JSR).

139 F.Supp.2d 438 (2000)

Maria AGUINDA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. TEXACO, INC., Defendant. Gabriel Ashanga Jota, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Texaco, Inc., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 5, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. D'Urso, Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Cristobal Bonifaz, Law Offices of Cristobal Bonifaz, Amherst, Massachusetts, for plaintiffs.

Milton Schubin, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, New York City, George S. Branch, Daniel J. King, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, Ronald Minkoff, Beldoch Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York City, for defendants.

Jonathan S. Abady, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, for the Republic of Ecuador.

ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

On September 1, 2000, counsel for plaintiffs filed a motion asking the undersigned to disqualify himself from further proceedings in the above-captioned cases. Disqualification motions, by their very nature, should be resolved expeditiously. This one, lacking even facial merit, is hereby denied.

The relevant facts are as follows. In 1996 and 1997 respectively, the Court dismissed the above-captioned cases, in...

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