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CABIRI v. GOVERNMENT OF REPUBLIC OF GHANA

No. 1997, Docket 97-9563.

165 F.3d 193 (1999)

Bawol CABIRI and Efua Cabiri, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott A. Kamber, New York, N.Y. (Wechsler Harwood Halebian & Feffer LLP, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael S. Cole, New York, N.Y. (Cascone & Cole, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, McLAUGHLIN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Bawol Cabiri was employed by the Republic of Ghana ("Ghana") as its trade representative to the United States, and enjoyed the use of a house in Westbury, New York pursuant to his employment contract. In 1986, Ghana summoned Cabiri home—where he alleges that he was detained and tortured—and undertook to discharge Cabiri from his post. When Ghana sued in state court to evict the Cabiri family from the Westbury house in which they...

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