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SAMPSON v. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

No. 97-3555.

250 F.3d 1145 (2001)

Jacob SAMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY and Claims Conference, Article 2 Fund, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 23, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Sampson, pro se.

Joseph D. Kearney (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph D. Kearney and Howard B. Eisenberg (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for amicus curiae Howard B. Eisenberg.

Michael D. McCormick, Momkus, Ozog & McCluskey, Doeners Grove, IL, Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr., Peter Heidenberger (argued), Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, Washington, DC, Daniel A. Kaufman, Paul J. Cherner, Sara L. Thomas, Michael, Beat & Friedrich, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Howard B. Eisenberg (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for amicus curiae Calvin Sawyier and Howard B. Eisenberg.

Mark Stern, Douglas H. Hallward-Driemeier (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae United States.

Before MANION, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Jacob Sampson, pro se, sued Germany for his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, and sued Germany and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. ("Claims Conference") for reparations from funds created for Holocaust survivors. The district court dismissed the complaint concluding that Germany was immune from suit and that Sampson lacked standing to sue the Claims Conference. Sampson appeals. We affirm.

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