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DAYTON v. CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

Nos. 87-7019, 87-7020.

834 F.2d 203 (1987)

Paul DAYTON, Appellant, v. CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, et al. Joseph E. STIASSNI, et al., Appellants, v. CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Herman, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Peter D. Ehrenhaft and Stephen M. Boyd, Washington, D.C., for appellee Centrotex.

Before GINSBURG and STARR, Circuit Judges and GESELL, District Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellants claim entitlement to compensation for the nationalization of textile production plants in Czechoslovakia once owned by them or their predecessors-in-interest. The district court dismissed their complaints; it held the defendants — Czechoslovakia and a Czechoslovakian state trading company (Centrotex) — immune from suit. Furthermore...

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