United States Third Circuit
Gross v. German Found. Indus. Initiative, 04-2744, 04-2745
In a World War II reparations case, dismissal of a claim contending that German companies owe "interest" on their payments to a reparations fund, created with substantial involvement of the U.S. and German governments for the benefit of Nazi victims and their descendants, is reversed where adjudicating the "interest" dispute would not present a nonjusticiable political question.
Appellate Information
- Argued 04/26/2006
- Decided 08/03/2006
- Published 08/03/2006
Judges
- SCIRICA, Chief Judge., Before SCIRICA, Chief Judge, SMITH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Third Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Burt Neuborne, (Argued), New York University Law School, New York, New York, Agnieszka Fryszman, (Argued), Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, D.C., Allyn Z. Lite, Lite, Depalma, Greenberg & Rivas, Newark, New Jersey, for Appellants, Elly Gross, Barbara Schwartz Lee and Bernard Lee.
- For Appellees:
- Jeffrey A. Barist, (Argued), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, New York, for Appellees, Deutsche Bank AG and Dresdner Bank AG., Roger M. Witten, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, New York, New York, for Appellees, Allianz AG, Bayer AG, Commerzbank AG, Deutz AG, and RAG AG., Thomas M. Mueller, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, New York, New York, for Appellee, BASF AG., Konrad L. Cailteux, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, New York, for Appellee, BMW AG., Bud G. Holman, Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York, New York, for Appellee, DaimlerChrysler AG., Kevin J. McKenna, John J. Gibbons, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, New Jersey, for Appellees, Degussa-Huells AG, Friedr Krupp AG Hoesch Krupp, and Robert Bosch GmbH of Stuttgart, Germany., Brant W. Bishop, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for Appellee, Siemens AG., Daniel V. Gsovski, Herzfeld & Rubin, New York, New York, for Appellee, Volkswagen AG., Walter E. Diercks, Rubin, Winston, Diercks, Harris & Cooke, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae-Appellee, Federal Republic of Germany.