United States Ninth Circuit

In this interpleader action concerning assets held by a corporation formed by the Philippines' former president Marcos, dismissal of governmental entities on gounds asserted by creditors' reversed, because governmental bodies are immune from suit on the ground of sovereign immunity, and proceeding stayed pending the resolution of claims in the Philippines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/14/2002
• Decided 10/31/2002
• Published 10/31/2002

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge., Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen V. Bomse,Rachel M. Jones, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Jay R. Ziegler, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for the defendants-appellees., Daniel C. Cathcart, Magaña, Cathcart & McCarthy, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees., A. Robert Pietrzak, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, New York, NY, for the plaintiff-appellee., Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee.