DE SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA

Civ. A. No. 79-4281.

515 F.Supp. 900 (1981)

Josefina Najarro DE SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA and Citizens and Southern International Bank.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. DeRussy, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

William R. Pitts, Joe B. Norman, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for defendant Banco Central de Nicaragua.

Warren M. Schultz, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for defendant Citizens and Southern International Bank.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SEAR, District Judge.

This case involves application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 ("FSIA" or "Immunities Act"), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330, 1391, 1441, 1602-1611, against the backdrop of the Nicaraguan revolution which ousted the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. Josefina Najarro de Sanchez, a Nicaraguan citizen who left her country during the civil war and now...

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