United States Second Circuit

In an action brought against Argentina by an owner of bonds issued by defendant seeking payment and interest on certain bonds, dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of claims relating to bonds issued by defendant under German law, and a ruling against plaintiff on its claim for statutory prejudgment interest on certain unpaid interest payments, are affirmed in part and vacated in part where: 1) there was subject matter jurisdiction over claims relating to German bonds because Argentina explicitly waived its sovereign immunity to suit in U.S. courts on those claims; and 2) the district court correctly determined that no interest payments became due on U.S. bonds after they had been accelerated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2009
• Published 01/13/2009

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:, Before SOTOMAYOR, KATZMANN, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. Norman Goldberger, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Philadelphia, P.A., Kenneth G. Roberts, Jennifer F. Beltrami (of counsel), Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carmine D. Boccuzzi (Jonathan I. Blackman, of counsel), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.