United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit to recover amounts on deposit in foreign banks during the fall of Saigon in 1975, dismissal of the action is affirmed where, under application of the appropriate choice-of-law rules, the claims are time-barred and cannot be saved by equitable tolling.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2006
• Decided 09/28/2006
• Published 09/28/2006

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge., Before D.W. NELSON and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges, and ROBERT C. JONES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Federico C. Sayre, Mark S. Brown, Law Offices of Federico C. Sayre, Santa Ana, CA;  Thu-Cuc T. Phung, Westminster, CA;  Bicvan Thi Brown, New Port Beach, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard B. Kendall, Melissa R. McCormick, Irell & Manella, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees The Chase Manhattan Bank and Citigroup, N.A. Angela L. Padilla, Robert S. Stern, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Chiao Tung Bank Co.