CAN v. U.S.

No. 480, Docket 93-6134.

14 F.3d 160 (1994)

Hoang Ngoc CAN; Nguyen Huu To; Van U Duc, and other citizens of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mac Truong, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Aimee B. Wolfson, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Ping C. Moy, Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge and KEARSE, Circuit Judge, POLLAK, District Judge.


LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge:

The appellants in this case are a self-styled class of all persons who were citizens of the Republic of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, when that government collapsed and was taken over by North Vietnam. The class filed suit in the Southern District of New York seeking a preliminary injunction directing that (1) the United States freeze all assets under its control that belonged to the former South Vietnam; (2) plaintiffs' counsel...

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