HAMID v. PRICE WATERHOUSE

Nos. 92-56085, 92-56198 and 92-56199.

51 F.3d 1411 (1995)

Akhtar HAMID, on Behalf of Himself and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PRICE WATERHOUSE, Price Waterhouse/U.K.; Price Waterhouse World Firm Ltd.; Price Waterhouse/U.S.; Ernst & Young; Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; Bank of America Corporation, Bankamerica Corp.; Bank of America NT & SA; Hill & Knowlton; Concorde Finance & Investments, GRP Investments; Interredec, Inc.; Interredec Southern Co.; et al.; First American Corp., First American Bankshares; Paul Adams; Jack Beddow; A. Vincent Scoffone; T. Bertram Lance; Independence Bank; Manuel Noriega; Fulvio Dobrich; Robert Altman; Clark Clifford; Clifford & Warnke, Defendants-Appellees. Akhtar HAMID, on Behalf of Himself and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PRICE WATERHOUSE, Price Waterhouse/U.K.; Price Waterhouse World Firm Ltd.; Price Waterhouse/U.S.; Ernst & Young; Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; Bank of America Corporation, Bankamerica Corp.; Bank of America NT & SA; Hill & Knowlton; Concorde Finance & Investments, GRP Investments; Interredec, Inc.; Interredec Southern Co.; et al.; T. Bertram Lance; Independence Bank; Manuel Noriega; Fulvio Dobrich; Robert Altman; Clark Clifford; Clifford & Warnke, Defendants, and First American Corp., First American Bankshares, Inc.; Paul G. Adams; Jack Beddow; A. Vincent Scoffone; Defendants-Appellants. Akhtar HAMID, on Behalf of Himself and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PRICE WATERHOUSE, Price Waterhouse/U.K.; Price Waterhouse World Firm Ltd.; Price Waterhouse/U.S.; Ernst & Young; Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; Bank of America Corporation, Bankamerica Corp.; Bank of America NT & SA; Hill & Knowlton; T. Bertram Lance; Independence Bank; Manuel Noriega; Robert Altman; Clark Clifford; Clifford & Warnke, First American Bankshares, Inc.; Jack W. Beddow; Paul G. Adams; A. Vincent Scoffone, Defendants, and Concorde Finance & Investments; Interredec, Inc.; Interredec Southern Company, Inc.; Wesley Company, Inc.; River Oaks, Inc.; River Oaks Investments, Inc.; Sterling Bluff, Inc.; GRP Investments N.V., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Lerach (argued), and Kevin P. Roddy (on the briefs), Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Spechthrie & Lerach, San Diego, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants Hamid.

Stephen J. Brogan (argued), and Elwood G. Lui (on the briefs), Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants First American Corp., First American Bankshares, Inc., Jack W. Beddow, Paul G. Adams, III, and A. Vincent Scoffone.

James W. Colbert, III, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA (argued), for all defendants-appellees.

Robert C. Vanderet and Linda J. Smith, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, James E. Tolan and William K. Dodds, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, New York City, for defendant-appellee Price Waterhouse United Kingdom.

DeBevoise & Plimpton, John G. Koeltl, Bruce G. Merritt, Edwin G. Schallert, Barton Legum, New York City, for Price Waterhouse of the United States.

Gravath Swaine & Moore, Francis P. Barron, New York City and Munger Tolles & Olson, Alan D. Bersin, Michael R. Doyen, Los Angeles, CA, for Price Waterhouse World Firm Ltd.

Patton, Boggs & Blow, Ronald S. Liebman, Scott N. Stone, Charles E. Talisman, Washington, DC and Kendig & Ross, Dennis A. Kendig, Bradley D. Ross, Los Angeles, CA, for Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Inv. Authority.

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Stephen J. Brogan, Elwood G. Lui, Washington, DC, for First American Corp., First American Bankshares, Inc., Jack W. Beddow, Paul G. Adams, III, and A. Vincent Scoffone.

Davis & Gilbert, Mitchell I. Weitz, Howard J. Rubin, New York City and Irell & Manella, Morgan Chu, Wayne Barsky, Los Angeles, CA, for Hill & Knowlton.

John C. Fauvre, Ullar Vitsut, Los Angeles, CA, James Roethe, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Bank of America, Michael J. Halloran, Gen. Counsel, San Francisco, CA, for Bank of America, NT & SA and BankAmerica Corp.

Richards, Watson & Gershon, John A. Belcher, Los Angeles, CA, for Fulvio Dobrich.

Johnson & Gibbs, K. Chris Todd, Mark C. Hansen, Washington, DC, and O'Neill & Lysaght, Brian O'Neill, Santa Monica, CA, for Concorde Finance & Investments, GRP Investments, N.V., InterRedec, Inc., InterRedec Southern Co., Inc., Wesley Co., Inc., River Oaks, Inc., River Oaks Investments, Inc. and Sterling Bluff, Inc.

Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, Gary D. Schlessinger, James L. Seal, Beverly Hills, CA, for Clark Clifford, Robert Altman and Clifford & Warnke.

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, M. Laurence Popofsky, Ronald C. Peterson, San Francisco, CA, and Bruce M. Cormier, Kathryn A. Oberly, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Ernst & Young, Washington, DC, for Ernst & Young.

Mark C. Hansen, Johnson & Gibbs, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees Concorde Finance.

Before BROWNING, BOOCHEVER and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from dismissal of a class action by depositors in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International ("BCCI"). The issues we resolve involve timeliness of appeal, judicial recusal, the derivative nature of the depositors' RICO claims, and the application of the Alien Tort Statute.

We have jurisdiction over depositors' claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review the district court's dismissal for failure to state...

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