GREGORIAN v. IZVESTIA

No. CV 85-0100-KN.

658 F.Supp. 1224 (1987)

Raphael GREGORIAN and California International Trade Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. IZVESTIA; Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; V/O Medexport, USSR; V/O Licensintorg, USSR; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Mine Safety Applicances Company; and Catalyst Research, a division of Mine Safety Appliances Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

April 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald L. Kroll and Beth E. Yoffie, of Kroll & Lindstrom, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Sol Scope, of Margolis, McTernan, Scope & Epstein, Los Angeles, Cal., Martin Popper and John Mage, of Wolf, Popper, Ross, Wolf & Jones, New York City, for defendants.

David J. Anderson and Elizabeth Sarah Gere, of the Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the U.S.


ORDER

KENYON, District Judge.

I.

BACKGROUND FACTS

Two of the defendants in this action, V/O Medexport and V/O Licensintorg, organs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ("USSR"), have moved pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(4) and (b)(6) to set aside the default judgment entered against them and to dismiss the action pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1) and (b)(2).

The documents before the Court establish the following: Plaintiff...

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