United States Ninth Circuit

The Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act of 1999, Cal. Ins. Code 13800-13807 (1999), which requires insurance companies to report on policies they sold in Europe between 1920 and 1945, does not violate the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2001
• Decided 02/07/2001
• Published 02/07/2001

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  GOODWIN, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel Siegel, Supervising Deputy Attorney, State of California, Sacramento, CA;  Mark B. Stern and Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC;  David A. Lash, Bet Tzedel Legal Services, Los Angeles, CA;  David O. Bucholz, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC;  and Daniel B. Price, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Washington, DC, for amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frank Kaplan,Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, LLP, Los Angeles, California, Andrew W. Stroud, Mennemeier, Glassman & Stroud LLP, Sacramento, California, and Michael D. Ramsey, San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellant., Kenneth S. Geller, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C.;  Linda Dakin-Grimm and John C. Ashby, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Los Angeles, California;  Frederick W. Reif, Wilson, Elser, New York, New York, and Timothy P. Grieve, Stevens & O'Connell LLP, Sacramento, California;  and Peter Simshauser, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.