United States Second Circuit

Dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of a suit arising from the mistreatment of Jews in Poland after World War II is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to establish that a statutory exception to foreign sovereign immunity pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applied to their claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/15/2003
• Decided 03/03/2006
• Published 03/07/2006

Judges

• Before KEARSE, CABRANES, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen A. Whinston (Edward W. Millstein, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA;  Edward E. Klein, Klein & Solomon, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Garb, et al., Charles Chotkowski, Fairfield, CT, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Owen C. Pell (Karen M. Asner, on the brief), White & Case LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Republic of Poland, et al., Douglas Hallward-Driemeier (William H. Taft IV, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Wynne M. Teel, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Gregory G. Katsas, Jr., Mark B. Stern, on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States of America in support of Defendant-Appellee Republic of Poland.