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U.S. v. SWISS AMERICAN BANK, LTD.

No. 99-1012.

191 F.3d 30 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SWISS AMERICAN BANK, LTD., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1999.

Rehearing Denied November 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. Heifetz, Trial Attorney, with whom Gerald E. McDowell, Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Stefan D. Cassella, Assistant Chief, and Richard L. Hoffman, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellant.

Howard Wilson, with whom Howard Fischer, Rosenman & Colin LLP, Michael B. Keating, Sarah Cooleybeck, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP were on brief, for appellees Swiss American Bank, Ltd. and Swiss American National Bank.

William Shaw McDermott, with whom Irene C. Freidel, Edward S. Horton, and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP were on brief, for appellee Bank of New York — Intermaritime Bank (Geneva).

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises issues of first impression, requiring us to delineate the circumstances under which foreign corporations may be brought before the federal courts through the medium of a recently enacted provision of the Civil Rules. In the underlying case, the government brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against several foreign banking concerns in an effort to recover assets accumulated by a...

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