DE FONTBRUNE v. WOFSY

No. 14-15790.

838 F.3d 992 (2016)

Vincent Sicre DE FONTBRUNE; Loan Sicre de Fontbrune; Adel Sicre de Fontbrune; Anais Sicre de Fontbrune, in their capacity as the personal representatives of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Alan WOFSY; Alan Wofsy & Associates, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 26, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Mooney (argued), San Francisco, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Neil Popovic (argued), San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges and Richard F. Boulware, District Judge.


OPINION

Justice Holmes once observed that foreign legal systems can appear to the uninitiated "like a wall of stone," impenetrable and unyielding. Diaz v. Gonzalez, 261 U.S. 102, 106, 43 S.Ct. 286, 67 L.Ed. 550 (1923) (Holmes, J.). For over a century, the federal courts attempted...

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