United States Fifth Circuit

A restraining order indefinitely freezing specific bank accounts is vacated in a case involving attempts by estates of individuals killed during a terrorist attack to collect a default judgment from accounts of an organization previously charged with material support of a terrorist organization, tax evasion, and money laundering.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2006
• Published 04/05/2006

Judges

• BENAVIDES and CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judges:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and KING, JOLLY, DAVIS, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, DENNIS, CLEMENT, PRADO and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lewis Stanley Yelin, Vijay Shanker (argued), Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, for U.S., David J. Strachman (argued), McIntre, Tate, Lynch & Holt, Providence, RI, pro se and Stephen Cass Weiland, Patton Boggs, Dallas, TX, for Appellants.