United States Second Circuit

Defendant-banks unsuccessfully appeal a district court order, concluding that they were not "foreign states" entitled to immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), based on an intervening Supreme Court decision holding that a foreign state must own a majority of a corporation's shares if it is to be deemed an instrumentality of the state under the FSIA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2004
• Published 08/06/2004

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, STRAUB, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory P. Joseph, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices, LLC, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Gary B. Filler and Lawrence Perlman., Karen C. Dyer, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Janet Baker, James Baker, JKBaker LLC, and JMBaker LLC., Daniel L. Brockett, (Mark C. Dosker, Rebecca W. Haverstick, on the brief), Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Chohung Bank., Steven M. Bierman, (Alan M. Unger, Daniel A. McLaughlin, Mark E. Walli, Catherine B. Winter, Allen C. Kim, on the brief), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Hanvit Bank.