IN RE ARAB BANK, PLC ALIEN TORT STATUTE LITIGATION

Docket Nos. 13-3605, 13-3620, 13-3635, 13-4650, 13-4652.

808 F.3d 144 (2015)

In re ARAB BANK, PLC ALIEN TORT STATUTE LITIGATION.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 8, 2015.

Amended: December 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Elsner ( John M. Eubanks , on the brief), Motley Rice LLC, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Mark Werbner and Joel Israel , Sayles Werbner, PC, Dallas, TX, (on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Kevin Walsh ( Douglas W. Mateyaschuk, II , Steven J. Young , on the brief), DLA Piper LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.

Stephen M. Shapiro , Timothy S. Bishop , Chad M. Clamage , Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, (on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Richard L. Herz , EarthRights International, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae-Human Rights Organizations.

Tyler R. Giannini , Harvard Law School, International Human Rights Clinic, Cambridge, MA, for Amici Curiae-Professors of Legal History Barbara Aronstein Black, William R. Casto, Martin S. Flaherty, Nasser Hussain, Stanley N. Katz, John V. Orth, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Neal Kumar Katyal and Jessica L. Ellsworth , Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae-The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier , Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae-Union of Arab Banks.

Jeffrey B. Wall , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington D.C., for Amicus Curiae-Institute of International Bankers.

Before: SACK, CHIN, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.


The plaintiffs in this case filed five separate lawsuits between 2004 and 2010 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the defendant, Arab Bank, PLC. Oran Almog, et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC, No. 04-CV-5564 (E.D.N.Y. filed Dec. 21,...

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