This appeal presents the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history's worst industrial catastrophe: the
1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action
complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. Those claims were dismissed in deference to the Indian government's efforts on behalf of
disaster victims to pursue a global resolution in India of claims related to the disaster. The ensuing litigation in India
eventually produced a settlement agreement, which gained the final approval of the Supreme Court of India in 1991.