United States Ninth Circuit

An appeal brought by third-party claimants, an off-shore bank's liquidators, of orders involving the government's efforts to seize approximately $2.5 million in assets from a former Ukrainian prime minister who was convicted of money laundering, is dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction where the liquidators lacked standing and the controversy was not yet ripe for review since they could protect their interest in funds and bonds in ancillary proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2006
• Decided 11/21/2006
• Published 11/21/2006

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: O'CONNOR, Associate Justice, and GRABER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rory K. Little (argued), Gordon A. Greenberg, Matthew J. Jacobs, and Peter J. Drobac, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for the claimants-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hartley West (argued) and Patricia J. Kenney, Assistant United States Attorneys, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.