United States Fourth Circuit

Court affirms finding that defendants are immune from prosecution for circulating unauthorized promissory notes under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and thus the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2004
• Published 06/03/2004

Judges

• BENNETT, District Judge:, Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and Richard D. BENNETT, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Clinton Louis Rudisill, Rudisill & Associates, P.A., Fayetteville, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Francis Anthony Vasquez, Jr., White & Case, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Carolyn B. Lamm, Frank Panopoulos, Nicole Erb, White & Case, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.