On July 8 a federal appeals court reinstated a suit that seeks to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation liable for alleged killings and beatings committed by security forces that guarded its Indonesian natural gas facility during a period of civil unrest.
The 2-to-1 decision, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, is a victory for the bicoastal team of Agnieszka Fryszman of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll and Paul Hoffman of Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, who both argued the appeal for the victims of violence and their family members in the oil-rich Aceh province of Indonesia. Sri Srinivasan at O’Melveny & Myers argued for Exxon.
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