United States Ninth Circuit
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. ENC Corp., 04-16401, 04-16503, 04-16538
In an interpleader action, a decision of the district court awarding funds in dispute to a class of human rights victims represented by an individual is affirmed with modification where the Republic of the Philippines and the Presidential Commission on Good Government (the PCGG) were not indispensable parties under Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(b).
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/14/2005
- Decided 05/04/2006
- Published 05/04/2006
Judges
- Before JOHN T. NOONAN, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and JAMES L. ROBART, District Judge.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Stephen V. Bomse, San Francisco, CA, for the Republic of the Philippines., Jay R. Ziegler, Los Angeles, CA, for Arelma, Inc. and Philippine National Bank.
- For Appellees:
- Daniel C. Cathcart, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellants Golden Budha Corp. and Estate of Roxas., Robert A. Swift, Philadelphia, PA, for defendant-appellee Mariano J. Pimentel.