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DE SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA

No. 84-3247.

770 F.2d 1385 (1985)

Josefina Najarro DE SANCHEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA, A Foreign Banking Corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeRussy & Matthews, John G. DeRussy, New Orleans, La., and Armstrong & Mejer, Timothy J. Armstrong, Coral Gables, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Liskow & Lewis, Joe B. Norman, New Orleans, La., Paul S. Reichler and Judith C. Appelbaum, Washington, D.C., for Banco.

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

Before GOLDBERG, RUBIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff's faction having lost on the battlefield, she now seeks to move the conflict to the courtroom, hoping that, in this case at least, the pen is mightier than the sword.

In July 1979, the Nicaraguan government of General Anastasio Somoza fell to the Sandinista revolutionaries. As usually...

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