(CN) - The 9th Circuit questioned if it has the jurisdiction to hear the claims of three widows whose husbands died in a methane explosion at a Mexican coal mine.
Yolanda Gonzalez Diaz, Elizabeth Castillo Rabago and Tomasita Martinez Almaguer claim in a 2010 federal complaint that Grupo Mexico and its subsidiaries, Americas Mining Corp. and Southern Copper Corp., "failed and refused to take the necessary steps - steps which they were informed by the Mexican government as well as the miners themselves that they needed to take to prevent an imminent, fatal catastrophe of the type which transpired."
The Feb. 19, 2006, explosion at Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners.
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