The state-court action lawsuit against the Dole Food Company by farm workers that claimed they were injured from chemical expose to dibromo chloropropane (DBCP) while working in the countries of Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Panama. Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson subsequently went to trial in 1997 (Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson). Dole is a United States corporation while the farm workers were employees working for the company under the federal common law. Due to this fact, Dole argued that the international relationship Dead Seas Companies, which comprise of the Dead Sea Bromine Co. and Bromine Compounds, Ltd., provided questioned the authority of the federal common law (Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson). However, the court overruled