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Litigation

Jan. 20, 2011

Tellez v. Dole Food Co.

Personal Injury Los Angeles County Superior Court Los Angeles


Most lawyers have never heard of a coram vobis petition, much less used it. But after attorneys for Dole Food Co. unearthed a massive fraud committed by plaintiffs' lawyers on behalf of Nicaraguan men who claimed to have been sterilized on Dole's banana farms in the 1970s, defense counsel decided to put it to work for the litigation's sole remaining case.


"In California you can count on one hand the number of coram vobis petitions t...

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