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ORDER RE: DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON THE REMAINING FEDERAL LAW CLAIMS

On March 21, 2008, the Court heard argument on defendants’ motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ remaining federal law claims under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (“ATS”). Having considered the arguments of counsel and the papers submitted, and for good cause shown, the Court hereby GRANTS IN PART and DENIES IN PART defendants’ motion.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs filed this suit in 1999, seeking to recover for a series of brutal attacks that plaintiffs allege occurred in Nigeria in mid-1998 and early 1999. Plaintiffs alleged violent attacks at the Chevron Par-abe oil platform in May 1998 and at the villages of Opia and Ikenyan in January 1999. The parties vigorously dispute most of the facts of this case; the Court described the parties’ versions of the relevant facts in great detail in its August 13, 2007 Order (Docket No. 1640), which addressed defendants’ motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ claims 10 through 17. Plaintiffs’ council have recently filed voluntary dismissals of the claims related to the January 1999 attacks at Opia and Ikenyan, leaving only the Parabe oil…