Terrence Collingsworth of Conrad & Scherer has been tussling with The Coca-Cola Co. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan for more than a decade. To Collingsworth, the Atlanta-based soft drink giant is responsible for a string of violent acts against foreign union leaders and their families, but rulings by U.S. courts keep taking the fizz out of his anti-Coke campaign.

On Friday the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed Collingsworth and his international clients their latest defeat, ruling against eight Guatemalan union leaders and their families who accuse Coca-Cola of perpetrating a campaign of rape, murder and attempted murder though the company’s Guatemalan bottler, Industria de Café S.A. A unanimous three-judge panel issued a summary order upholding a 2010 decision to dismiss the case on forum non conveniens grounds.

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