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U.S. v. CERTAIN FUNDS AT HONG KONG, SHANGHAI BANK

No. 2234, Docket 96-6125.

96 F.3d 20 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CERTAIN FUNDS CONTAINED IN ACCOUNT NOS. 600-306211-006, 600-306211-011 AND 600-306211-014 LOCATED AT the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, et al., Defendants, Ko Sai-Man, Chui Kim-Chun, Claimants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur P. Hui, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York (Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney, Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Brian A. Sun, Santa Monica, California (Ellyn S. Garofalo, O'Neill, Lysaght & Sun, Santa Monica, California. Joseph W. Ryan, M. Elisabeth Bergeron, Farrell, Fritz, Caemmerer, Cleary, Barnosky & Armentano, Uniondale, New York, of counsel), for claimants-appellees.

Before: WINTER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and MOTLEY, District Judge.

JOSE A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from a judgment for the appellees entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Denis R. Hurley, Judge), we are asked to decide whether 28 U.S.C. § 1355(b) ("section 1355(b)"), an amendment to the jurisdictional provisions of a civil forfeiture statute providing federal courts with jurisdiction over res located overseas, can be applied to an action begun before the...

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