United States Supreme Court
Republic of the Philippines v. Pimentel, 06-1204
In an interpleader action commenced to determine the ownership of property allegedly stolen by Ferdinand Marcos when he was the President of the Republic of the Philippines, a circuit court's decision finding that the action could proceed without the Republic of the Philippines and a Philippine Commission as parties, which had successfully asserted sovereign immunity and been dismissed from the action, is reversed where: 1) the circuit court gave insufficient weight to the foreign sovereign status of those two parties; and 2) it further erred in reaching and discounting the merits of their claims.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/12/2008
- Published 06/12/2008
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- United States Supreme Court