May 23, 2017
Counsel representing relatives of torture victims who allege that Chiquita Brands International Inc. paid off a Colombian paramilitary group sought an order on Monday in Florida federal court to stop a colleague from allegedly copying the company's attorneys on privileged communications concerning unnamed clients.
May 11, 2017
A Florida federal court on Wednesday consolidated four additional suits from Ohio in sprawling multidistrict litigation that has relatives of people allegedly tortured and killed by a Colombian paramilitary group saying Chiquita Brands International Inc. paid off the terrorist group.
May 02, 2017
Another suit against Chiquita Brands International Inc. was moved Monday to Florida federal court in sprawling multidistrict litigation that has relatives of people allegedly tortured and killed by a Colombian paramilitary group saying Chiquita paid off the terrorist group.
April 03, 2017
Relatives of people allegedly tortured and killed by a Colombian paramilitary group urged a Florida court on Friday to toss Chiquita Brands International Inc.'s defenses that it paid off the terrorist group under duress and that the payments were made by its former Colombian subsidiary and not the parent firm.
November 29, 2016
Chiquita Brands International Inc. and individual executives failed to persuade a Florida federal judge to dismiss a long-running multidistrict litigation involving Torture Victim Protection Act claims based on forum non conveniens after he ruled Monday the proposed alternative forum of Colombia posed security risks.
November 14, 2016
A Florida federal judge on Monday refused to reconsider a ruling that Chiquita Brands International Inc. and its executives will have to face Torture Victim Protection Act claims in multidistrict litigation brought by relatives of people allegedly tortured and killed by a Colombian paramilitary group.
October 03, 2016
A Washington, D.C., attorney on Friday blasted efforts by plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation against Chiquita Brands International over alleged payoffs to murderous Colombian paramilitary groups to sanction him for purported disclosures to the fruit distributor, telling a Florida federal court that an email at issue was not privileged.
September 30, 2016
Plaintiffs' counsel in multidistrict litigation against Chiquita Brands International over alleged payoffs to murderous Colombian paramilitary groups on Thursday again asked for sanctions against one of their attorneys for intentionally divulging the group's work product to Chiquita, saying his pattern of improper disclosures is delaying the case.
June 02, 2016
A Florida federal judge ruled Thursday that Chiquita Brands International Inc. will have to face Torture Victim Protection Act claims in multidistrict litigation brought by relatives of people allegedly tortured and killed by a Colombian paramilitary group.
May 31, 2016
Chiquita Brands International Inc. has shot back against Conrad & Scherer LLP's bid to withdraw as counsel for plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation accusing the company of paying off murderous Colombian paramilitary groups, saying the proposed substitute attorney allegedly committed "substantial misconduct."