United States Fifth Circuit

In proceedings arising out of a class action brought against Ferdinand Marcos, the former President of the Philippines, to enforce an Illinois registered judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, dismissal of the action is reversed where a judgment entered in one federal court and then registered in a second federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1963, may be re-registered and enforced in a third federal court, a process termed "successive registration."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2010
• Published 04/07/2010

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, DAVIS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Swift (argued), Kohn, Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, PA, S. Patrick Woodson, IV, Woodson Law Firm, Fort Worth, TX, Sherry P. Broder, Honolulu, HI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eugene D. Gulland, Joshua D. Greenburg, Neil K. Roman (argued), Covington & Burling, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Elizabeth Ellen Mack, Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Janet Ellen Militello, Neale Andersen Shields, Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.