United States Eleventh Circuit

District court properly dismissed this case for insufficient service of process. Because OPEC resides in Austria, where applicable law prohibits service without OPEC's consent, the service of process did not substantially comply with the requirements of FRCP rule 4(f)(2)(C)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2003
• Published 12/18/2003

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BARKETT and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Straus,Straus & Boies, LLP, Mark J. Schirmer, Birmingham, AL, Jeffrey A. Bartos, Guerrieri, Edmond & Clayman, Washington, DC, David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Robert J. Dwyer, Armonk, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Gregory S. Coleman, Austin, TX, William F. Gardner, Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal, N. Lee Cooper, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Birmingham, AL, Carolyn B. Lamm, White & Case, Louis George Ferrand, Thomas C. Green, Sidley & Austin, William J. Kolasky, Jr., Washington, DC, Thomas J. O'Sullivan, New York City, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas S. Martin, Perry S. Bechky, Kristine A. Huskey, Shaniek Mills Maynard, Jonathan Richard DeFosse, Washington, DC, J. Mark White, White, Dunn & Booker, M. Christian King, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, Sam C. Pointer, Jr., Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.