United States DC Circuit

Defendant, a unique entity through which the US performs consular services on Taiwan and conducts commercial, cultural, and other relations with the people on Taiwan, enjoys sovereign immunity from a qui tam suit brought by defendant's former managing director.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2002
• Decided 04/16/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

• Before:  TATEL and GARLAND, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wm. Paul Lawrence, II argued the cause for appellant.   With him on the briefs was Bradley S. Weiss.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas N. Letter, Litigation Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., U.S. Attorney, R. Craig Lawrence and Lydia Kay Griggsby, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.