United States Ninth Circuit

Because there is neither day-to-day control nor a principal-agent relationship between Iran and and Iranian bank, with offices and property in the US, plantiff may not levy against real estate owned by the bank pursuant to a default judgment entered against the Republic of Iran.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/03/2001
• Decided 10/23/2002
• Published 10/23/2002

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Fortune Fay, and Jane Carol Norman, Washington, DC, for the appellant., Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Douglas N. Letter, H. Thomas Byron III, and Anne Murphy, Attorneys, USDJ, Washington, DC, for the amicus, United States Department of Justice., Ellen Pattin, Olney, MD, for the amicus, Marine Corps Aviation Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven W. Kerekes, Beverly Hills, CA, for the appellee.