United States Ninth Circuit

Where the majority of a defendant foreign company's shares are held by a holding company, and not a foreign government, the company is not "an instrumentality of a foreign state" under the "majority owned" prong of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2001
• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, BRUNETTI and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Glenn E. Tremper,Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C., Great Falls, Montana, for the plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant., John G. McAndrews, Joseph J. Winowiecki, Mendes & Mount, New York, New York;  Jack L. Lewis, Patrick R. Watt and Brian L. Taylor, Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Great Falls, Montana, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.