| Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Company | |
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| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit |
| Full case name | Sinaltrainal, Isidro Segundo Gil, The Estate of, Luis Eduardo Garcia, Alvaro Gonzalez Lopez, Jose Domingo Flores, Jorge Humberto Leal, Juan Carlos Galvis, Alvaro Gonzalez, John Doe, as representative of the Estate of Isidro Segundo Gil, Luis Adolfo Cardona, John Doe II, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola De Colombia, S.A., Panamerican Beverages Company, LLC, Panamco, LLC, Panamco Industrial De Gaseosas, S.A., A.K.A. Panamco Columbia, S.A., Richard I. Kirby, et al. |
| Decided | August 11, 2009 |
| Citation | 578 F.3d 1252 |
| Case history | |
| Prior history | 256 F. Supp. 2d 1345 (S.D. Fla. 2003); 474 F. Supp. 2d 1273 (S.D. Fla. 2006) |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Susan H. Black, Emmett Ripley Cox |
| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Black, joined by unanimous |
| Laws applied | |
| Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 | |
Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola, 578 F.3d 1252 (11th Cir. 2009), was a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case filed by Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal (National Union of Food Workers) against Coca-Cola in a Miami district court, demanding monetary compensation of $500 million under the Alien Tort Claims Act for the deaths of three workers in Colombia.