United States Second Circuit

In an action for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in enabling plaintiff's husband to withdraw most of her life savings from a newly established bank account in Turkey, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the bank was immune from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act because none of defendant bank employees' following acts, while in Turkey, had a "direct effect" in the U.S.: 1) telling plaintiff that she could not open an individual checking account 2) causing her to open a disjunctive joint account from which funds could be withdrawn by one joint owner without the consent of the other, and 3) notifying plaintiff's husband, rather than plaintiff, when the funds had arrived in the new account.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2010
• Published 04/08/2010

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• United States Second Circuit

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