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### UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT



#  L UIS A LBERTO G ALVIS M UJICA , on behalf of himself and as representative of the Estates of Tereza Mujica Hernan, Edilma Leal Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; M ARIO G ALVIS G ELVEZ , on behalf of himself, individually, and as heir of the decedents Tereza Mujica No. 05-56056 Hernandez, Edilma Leal Pacheco D.C. No. and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; CV-03-02860-WJR J OHN M ARIO G ALVIS M UJICA , Central District of



#  through his guardian ad litum and California, on behalf of himself, individually, Los Angeles and as heir of the decedents Terza Mujica Hernandez, Edilma Leal Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez Becerra, Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUM C ORPORATION ; A IRSCAN I NC .,

Defendants-Appellees. 

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#  L UIS A LBERTO G ALVIS M UJICA , on behalf of himself and as representative of the Estates of Tereza Mujica Hernan, Edilma Leal Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; M ARIO G ALVIS G ELVEZ , on behalf of himself, individually, and as heir of the decedents Tereza Mujica Hernandez, Edilma Leal Pacheco No. 05-56175 and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; J OHN M ARIO G ALVIS M UJICA , D.C. No. through his guardian ad litum and CV-03-02860-WJR on behalf of himself, individually, Central District of



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and as heir of the decedents Terza California, Mujica Hernandez, Edilma Leal Los Angeles Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez Becerra, Plaintiffs-Appellees,

v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUM C ORPORATION , Defendant-Appellant,

and
A IRSCAN I NC ., Defendant. 

#  5424 M UJICA v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUM

#  L UIS A LBERTO G ALVIS M UJICA , on behalf of himself and as representative of the Estates of Tereza Mujica Hernan, Edilma Leal Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; M ARIO G ALVIS G ELVEZ , on behalf of himself, individually, and as heir of the decedents Tereza Mujica Hernandez, Edilma Leal Pacheco No. 05-56178 and Johanny Hernandez Becerra; J OHN M ARIO G ALVIS M UJICA , D.C. No. through his guardian ad litum and CV-03-02860-WJR on behalf of himself, individually, Central District of



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and as heir of the decedents Terza California, Mujica Hernandez, Edilma Leal Los Angeles Pacheco and Johanny Hernandez ORDER Becerra, Plaintiffs-Appellees,

v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUM C ORPORATION , Defendant-Appellant,

and
A IRSCAN I NC ., Defendant. 

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California William J. Rea, District Judge, Presiding 5425 M UJICA v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUMArgued and Submitted April 19, 2007 Submission Deferred August 23, 2007 Resubmitted May 11, 2009 Seattle, Washington

Filed May 11, 2009

Before: Jerome Farris and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy,* Senior District Judge.

COUNSEL

Bridget Arimond and Douglas W. Cassel, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Illinois; Terry Collingsworth, International Labor Rights Fund, Washington, D.C.; Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, Venice, California; Daniel M. Kovalik, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Manuel F. Cachn, Daniel P. Collins, Daniel L. Geyser, andJohn W. Spiegel, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, California; Kristin Linsley Myles, Munger, Tolles & Olson, San Francisco, California, for defendant/appellee/cross-appellant Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

Kenneth J. Berke, Berke & Kent, Calabasas, California; Sara M. Fotopulos and Thomas E. Fotopulos, Fotopulos &Fotopulos, Riverview, Florida, for defendant/appellee/crossappellant Airscan, Inc.

Marco B. Simons and Richard L. Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, D.C., for the amicus Earthrights International.

*The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. 5426 M UJICA v. O CCIDENTALP ETROLEUMWilliam J. Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California; Sarah H. Cleveland, Columbia Law School, New York, New York; William S. Dodge, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, for the amicus Constitutional and International Law Professors.

Ralph G. Steinhardt, George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C., for the amicus International Law Scholars.

Tyler Giannini, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the amicus U.S. Career Foreign Service Diplomats.

John B. Bellinger, III, Gregory Katsas, Douglas N. Letter, Robert M. Loeb, Sharon Swingle, and Debra Wong Yang, for the amicus The United States.

ORDER

In light of the intervening authority of Sarei v. Rio Tinto
, 550 F.3d 822 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc), this case is remandedto the district court to consider whether a prudential exhaustion requirement applies in this case, and if so, whether thatrequirement bars any claims in this case. On remand, the district court should also consider the effect, if any, of the decision of the Council of State of the Republic of Colombia in Mario Galvis Gelves, et al. v. The Nation , slip op. (Council of State, Rep. of Colombia, Ad. Law Div., Sec. 3, Dec. 13,2007) and the decision of the Court No. 12 for Criminal Matters of the Circuit of Bogot of the Republic of Colombia in In re Cesare Romero Pradilla, et al. , slip op. (Sept. 21, 2007).

REMANDED. 5427

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