WELLS FARGO ASIA LTD. v. CITIBANK, N.A.

No. 652, Docket 87-7685.

936 F.2d 723 (1991)

WELLS FARGO ASIA LIMITED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITIBANK, N.A., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darryl Snider, Los Angeles, Cal. (George A. Cumming, Jr., Duncan E. Haynes, Jessica M. Hoover, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert H. Bork, Washington, D.C. (Michael S. Helfer, David Westin, Scott Hoing, Yoon-Young Lee, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Kenneth S. Geller, Mark I. Levy, Stuart E. Abrams, Mayer, Brown & Platt, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

John L. Warden, New York City (Michael M. Wiseman, Sandra M. Malinowski, Sullivan & Cromwell, Norman R. Nelson, Lawrence R. Uhlick, of counsel), for The New York Clearing House Ass'n and the Institute of Intern. Bankers as Amici Curiae in support of reversal.

Kenneth W. Starr, Sol. Gen. of the U.S., Washington, D.C. (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey P. Minear, Asst. to the Sol. Gen., Anthony J. Steinmeyer, John P. Schnitker, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Michael J. Matheson, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, Dept. of State, Jeanne S. Archibald, Acting Gen. Counsel, Dept. of the Treasury, J. Virgil Mattingly, Gen. Counsel, Bd. of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Alfred J.T. Byrne, Gen. Counsel, F.D.I.C., Robert B. Serino, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, of counsel), for the U.S. as Amicus Curiae in support of reversal.

Kenneth V. Handal, New York City (Dennis G. Lyons, Robert H. Winter, Deborah S. Prutzman, David F. Freeman, Jr., Arnold & Porter, Christine E. Beatty, of counsel), for Bank of Montreal, Credit Du Nord, Maryland Nat. Bank, and the Toronto-Dominion Bank as Amici Curiae urging affirmance.

Before TIMBERS, KEARSE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


Final Submissions After Remand from Supreme Court February 19, 1991.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

This action, brought by plaintiff Wells Fargo Asia Limited ("WFAL") to recover funds deposited with the Philippine branch of defendant Citibank, N.A. ("Citibank"), returns to us on remand from the United States Supreme Court, see Citibank, N.A. v. Wells Fargo Asia Limited, ___ U.S. ___, 110 S.Ct. 2034, 109 L.Ed.2d 677 (1990), vacating and remanding

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