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Chavez v. Occidental Chem. Corp.

N.Y. Law Tolls Limit Statute for Purported Class Member During Action Filed in Other State

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*1 In 1993, a group of individuals from countries including Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama filed a putative class action in Texas state court against a number of chemical manufacturers including, among others, the defendant here, Occidental Chemical Corp. (“Occidental”). The plaintiffs had all lived or worked on banana plantations. They alleged that they had suffered adverse health consequences as a result of exposure to a chemical pesticide called dibromochloropropane (“DBCP”). In 2010, some 17 years later, after a long train of procedural misadventures, the plaintiffs dismissed their claims voluntarily.This case was filed in 2011, and, as filed, involved similar claims against substantially the same defendants. The plaintiffs here, however, were not parties to the original 1993 action. Nor are they subject to the 2010 dismissal. They were, however, absent members of the putative class: They are foreign nationals from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama who, like the named plaintiffs in the 1993 lawsuit, allege tortious exposure to DBCP between the 1960s and early 1980s. Their claims against Occidental were transferred to this District in May 2017, following a circuitous procedural path that led from Louisiana (where the case was brought) to Delaware to

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