United States Tenth Circuit

Nigerian defendants responding to fraud allegations have proven that the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 does not apply, as perpetrators of the fraud were neither agents nor employees of the Nigerian government.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/13/2003
• Published 05/13/2003

Judges

• HOLLOWAY, Senior Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Circuit Judge, and HOLLOWAY and BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:  Max Addison Wilson, Esq., Pueblo, CO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants and Defendants-Appellants., Robert J. Brown, David H. Fromm, and Fred G. Wexler of Brown, Gavalas & Fromm LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.