ALLIED BANK INTERN. v. BANCO CREDITO AGRICOLA

No. 225; Docket 83-7714.

757 F.2d 516 (1985)

ALLIED BANK INTERNATIONAL, For Itself and As Agent For American Fletcher National Bank, American Fletcher Bank (Suisse) A.G., Atlantic International Bank, Banco Exterior De Espana, Banco De Madrid, Bank of Miami, Intercontinental Bank of Miami Beach, Bank of Montreal, Bank of New Orleans, Bank of Virginia International, Bayerische Vereins Bank Int'l, S.A., Bayerische Vereins Bank, A.G., Bremar Holdings Limited, Cleveland Trust Company, Columbia Union National Bank, Credit Lyonnais, Deutsche Bank A.G., Export-Import Bank of the United States, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Fidelity National Bank of South Miami, Fidelity Union Trust Company, First Commercial Bank of Taiwan, First National Bank of Fort Worth, First National City Bank (Interamerica), First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A., Hartford National Bank, International Commercial Bank of China, Irving Inter-American Bank, Irving Trust Company, Kyowa Bank Limited, National Westminster Bank Ltd., Overseas Investors Inc., the Royal Bank of Canada, the Sanwa Bank Limited, Equibank N.A., Southeast First National Bank of Miami, Stockholms Sparbank, and United California Bank, Plaintiffs, Allied Bank International, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BANCO CREDITO AGRICOLA DE CARTAGO, Banco Anglo Costarricense and Banco Nacional De Costa Rica, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. McKay, New York City (Salvatore A. Ranieri, Michael S. Allen, Santora, McKay & Ranieri, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Jeffrey Barist, New York City (James B. Hurlock, Robert M. Kelly, F. Ellen Zeifer, Owen C. Pell, White & Case, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

John L. Warden, H. Rodgin Cohen, Michael Straus, Steven H. Reisberg, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for amicus curiae The New York Clearing House Association.

John M. Rogers, Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C. (Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Kopp, Dept. of Justice, David H. Small, Asst. Legal Adviser for Economic & Business Affairs, Harold G. Maier, Counselor on International Law, James V. Hackney, Jane P. Dana, Attorney-Advisers, Dept. of State, Margery Waxman, Acting Gen. Counsel, Ricki Rhodarmer Tigert, Sr. Counsel for International Finance, Dept. of the Treasury, Michael Bradfield, Gen. Counsel, Nancy P. Jacklin, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for the United States as amicus curiae.

Monroe Leigh, Cecil J. Olmstead, Timothy B. Atkeson, Alice L. Mattice, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., for The Rule of Law Committee and The National Foreign Trade Council, Inc. as amici curiae.

Before MESKILL and PIERCE, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.


ON REHEARING

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This matter is before us on rehearing. We vacate our previous decision dated April 23, 1984. We reverse the dismissal of the cause by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Griesa, J. We also reverse the district court's denial of plaintiff-appellant Allied Bank International's (Allied) motion for summary judgment. Both district court rulings were predicated solely on the act of...

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