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Federative Republic of Brazil v. Fu

Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law, Asset Forfeiture, Banking Law
In an interpleader action to determine competing claims to $6.8 million held by the United States, summary judgment in favor of Brazil, whose claim to...

Delaware County v. Federal Housing Finance Agency

Banking Law, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In three consolidated appeals, judgments in favor of defendant-enterprises concluding that defendants were not required to pay state and local real...

Deep Woods Holdings, L.L.C. v. Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of the Republic of Turkey

Banking Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law
Judgment in favor of plaintiff in a breach of contract action is reversed and remanded, where plaintiff's breach of contract and constructive trust...

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. FDIC

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Securities Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claims against defendant Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation alleging, among other things, breach of contract in...

Wilson v. Dantas

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In an action in which plaintiff alleged that the Citibank defendants engaged in tortious conduct and breached contractual obligations owed to...

Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice

Banking Law, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 does not preclude the plaintiffs' state-law class actions, which allege that defendants helped...

Ramos v. Homeward Residential, Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The trial court properly granted defendant-corporation's motion to set aside the default and default judgment obtained by plaintiff, where the service...

Ash v. North American Title

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Judgment for plaintiff-buyer in an action in which plaintiff alleged that defendants seller and escrow company were at fault for an escrow not closing...

Wilson v. HSBC Mortgage Services, Inc.

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint alleging certain improprieties with respect to defendant's acquisition of the mortgage on their home by way of an...

Yugoimport v. Republic of Croatia

Banking Law, International Law
In an interpleader action initiated by the Bank of New York to determine ownership of funds held in an account frozen pursuant to executive order...