United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of action, alleging that defendants wrongfully derived benefits through operation of a resort on property plaintiffs claim to own in Cuba, is affirmed where the act of state doctrine barred recovery on the plaintiffs' unjust enrichment and trespass claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2006
• Published 05/31/2006

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK, BARKETT and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Aryeh S. Portnoy, Stuart H. Newberger, Andrew Harold Marks, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, Stephen Frederick Rosenthal, Joel D. Eaton, Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jack B. Gordon, Elliot E. Polebaum, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, Washington, DC, R. Benjamine Reid, Carolton Fields, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.