United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action to enforce a default judgment, the denial of defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint is reversed where the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because defendants were instrumentalities of the Russian Federation, and thus, entitled to sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2009
• Published 08/19/2009

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Peter Socarras, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Washington, DC, Raquel A. Rodriguez, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants., Kelley B. Stewart, Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, P.A., Edward Royce Curtis, Tripp Scott, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.