GOULD, INC. v. PECHINEY UGINE KUHLMANN

Nos. 86-3649, 86-8327.

853 F.2d 445 (1988)

GOULD, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, (86-3649), Plaintiff-Respondent, (86-8327), v. PECHINEY UGINE KUHLMANN and Trefimetaux, Defendants-Appellants, (86-3649), Defendants-Petitioners, (86-8327).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1988.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Hemann, Hahn, Loeser, & Parks, Richard Zellner, Cleveland, Ohio, Brice M. Clagett (argued), Herbert Dym, James R. Atwood, Steven J. Rosenbaum, Carlos M. Vazquez, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for defendants-petitioners in No. 86-8327.

Brice M. Clagett (argued), Herbert Dym, James R. Atwood, Steven J. Rosenbaum, Carlos M. Vazquez, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Harry C. Nester, Mark E. Staib, Patricia A. Hemann, Hahn, Loeser & Parks, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants-appellants in No. 86-3649.

Edward E. Sachs, Gould, Inc., Rolling Meadows, Ill., Phillip H. Mayer (argued), Lawrence S. Wick, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Chicago, Ill., Maynard F. Thomson, Robert P. Ducatman, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, for Gould, Inc.

Before MERRITT and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge.


ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Defendants-appellants, Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann ("Pechiney") and Trefimetaux, appeal the denial of their motion to dismiss the complaint of plaintiff-appellee, Gould, Inc. The motion was predicated upon lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330, 1332(a)(2), (4), 1391(f), 1441(d), 1602-1611 ("FSIA"), improper venue, forum non conveniens, and failure...

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