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NORTH SOUTH FINANCE CORP. v. AL-TURKI

No. 245, Docket 96-7290.

100 F.3d 1046 (1996)

NORTH SOUTH FINANCE CORPORATION; Dalia Product Corporation; Alef Investment Corporation N.V.; Saudi Arabian and European Finanz Corp., B.V.; Saudi European Investment Corporation, N.V., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Abdulrahman A. AL-TURKI; Saad Alissa; Roger Tamraz; Ahmed Mannai; Abdullah Taha Bakhsh; Jamal Jawa; Talat Othman; Srichand Parmanand Hinduja; Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja; Prakash Parmanand Hinduja; Amas Limited; Amas UK Ltd.; Amas S.A.; Amas Securities Inc.; Abdelaziz A. Al Fadda; Adel Al-Aali; Haji Hassan Al-Aali Trading And Contracting Co.; Ali Abdullah Tamimi; Abdullah Abbar; Ahmed A. Zainy; Yusef Bin Ahmed Kanoo; Samir Traboulsi; Abbas Gokal; Gulf International Holdings S.A.; Charles Keating; Investcorp S.A.; Abdulrahman Sharbatly; Abdullatif Ali Alissa, Marino B. Chiavelli; Ashok Parmanand Hinduja; Abdulaziz Kanoo; Abdullah Kanoo, Defendants, Bouygues S.A.; Societe Civile de Labordere; Societe de Banque Privee (SBP); France Construction S.A.; Demachy Worms & Compagnie; Worms & Co., Inc.; Maison Worms & Compagnie; Worms & Compagnie; Societe d'Analyses et d'Etudes Bretonneau; Societe d'Amenagement Urbain et Rural, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Cymrot, Washington, DC (Baker & Hostetler, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Robert Ted Parker, San Francisco, CA (Jeffrey B. Kirschenbaum, Douglas A. Applegate, Berg, Ziegler, Anderson & Parker LLP, San Francisco, CA, Barry M. Bernstein, Bernstein & Arandia, New York City, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Bouygues S.A., et al.

Bruce H. Schneider, New York City (Michelle L. Pahmer, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York City, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Demachy Worms & Compagnie, et al.

Before: WALKER and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and CARMAN, Judge.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

At issue on this appeal is the extraterritorial reach of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., specifically, the application of RICO to a dispute among groups of foreign companies and foreign nationals, arising out of the 1989 sale and reorganization of a French bank named Saudi European Bank ("SEB"). The plaintiffs — none of them American — are the holding companies...

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