WALTER FULLER AIRCRAFT SALES v. REP. OF PHILIPPINES

No. 91-1805.

965 F.2d 1375 (1992)

WALTER FULLER AIRCRAFT SALES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES and the Philippines Presidential Commission on Good Government, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chairman David M. Castro, Presidential Com'n on Good Government, The Republic of the Philippines, Pasig, Metro Manilla Philippines, B. George Williams, Williams & O'Donnell, Woodland Hills, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Michael Lowenberg, Dallas, Tex., Melinda Gayle Jayson, Lisa S. Gallerano, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., for Walter Fuller Aircraft Sales, Inc.

Before KING and WIENER, Circuit Judges, and LAKE, District Judge.


KING, Circuit Judge:

Shortly after the Marcos regime was ousted from the Philippines, the new government of Corazon Aquino created the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) to recover any ill-gotten gains of Marcos and his confederates. Using its power to sequester property, the PCGG obtained control of a Falcon 50 jet aircraft (the Falcon) that had been leased by a Philippine corporation with alleged ties to the former Marcos regime. The owner of the...

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