United States Ninth Circuit

A foreign government's amenability to suit in the courts of its own country does not automatically subject it to jurisdiction in the United States under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 USC 1602-1611.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2001
• Decided 03/12/2001
• Published 03/12/2001

Judges

• Before:  LEAVY, TROTT, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vincent B. Moneymaker,Law Firm of Richard M. Moneymaker, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel S. Floyd, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellee.