IN RE AUSTRIAN, GERMAN HOLOCAUST LITIGATION

Nos. 01-3017, 01-3019, 01-3024 and 01-3025.

250 F.3d 156 (2001)

In re AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN HOLOCAUST LITIGATION. Henry Duveen, Martin Lowenberg, Bernard Lee, Lydia Milrod, Semmy Frenkel, Margit Friedlander-Stuart, Isaac Kaufman, Siegfried Buchwalter, Ruth Simon-Hamburger, Marian Salomon Elkan, Roman Neuberger, Paul Schwarz, Nathan Gutman, Elisabeth Bishop, Harold Watman, Ruth Abraham, Michal Schonberger, Rudolfine Schlinger, Ernestine Schwarz, Deutsche Bank Ag, Dresdner Bank Ag, Bayerische Hypo-Und Vereinsbank Ag, Commerzbank Ag, E.On Ag, Bezalel Kahn, Miriam Deutsch, Ludwig Schaffer, and World Council of Orthodox Jewish Communities, Inc., Petitioners, v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: May 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BURT NEUBORNE, New York, New York, (Melvyn I. Weiss, Deborah M. Sturman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, New York, New York, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Morris A. Ratner, Caryn Becker, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, New York, New York, Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Joseph D. Ament, Michael B. Hyman, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, Chicago, Illinois, Irwin Levin, Richard Shevitz, Cohen & Malad, Indianapolis, Indiana, Barry A. Fisher, Fleishman, Fisher & Moest, Los Angeles, California, on the brief), for Petitioners Duveen, Lowenberg, Lee, Milrod, Frenkel, Friedlander-Stuart, Kaufman, Buchwalter, Simon-Hamburger, Elkan, Neuberger, Schwarz, Gutman, and Bishop.

ROBERT A. SWIFT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Kohn Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Larry Kill, Linda Gerstel, Anderson Kill & Olick, New York, New York, Edward D. Fagan, Livingston, New Jersey, William Marks, The Marks Law Firm, Bernardsville, New Jersey, Carey R. D'Avino, New York, New York, Michael Witti, Witti, Neumann & Partners, Munchen, Germany, on the brief), for Petitioners Watman, Abraham, Schonberger, Schlinger, Schwarz.

STEPHEN A. WHINSTON, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Edward W. Millstein, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Appleby, New York, New York, Mel Urbach, Jersey City, New Jersey, J. Dennis Faucher, Miller Faucher Cafferty & Wexler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the brief), for Petitioners Kahn, Deutsch, Schaffer, and World Council Of Orthodox Jewish Communities, Inc.

JEFFREY BARIST, New York, New York (On the brief: William R. Spiegelberger, Aline Matta, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, New York, for Petitioner Deutsche Bank AG; Philip Allen Lacovara, Thomas M. Mueller, Andrew H. Schapiro, Michael O. Ware, Mayer, Brown & Platt, New York, New York, for Petitioner Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG; Kenneth A. Caruso, Robert Y. Lewis, John A. Zaloom, Shaw Pittman, New York, New York, for Petitioner Dresdner Bank AG; Roger M. Witten, John A. Trenor, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for Petitioner Commerzbank AG; Alan Kanzer, Alston & Bird, New York, New York, for Petitioner E.ON AG).

DAVID BOIES, Armonk, New York (Ann M. Galvani, Carl J. Nichols, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Armonk, New York, on the brief), for Respondent

LAWRENCE BYRNE, New York, New York (Lance Croffoot-Suede, Sharon M. Sash, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld, New York, New York), for Unnamed Plaintiff Putative Class Members Gutman et al. in Support of Respondent.

DOUGLAS HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mark B. Stern, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, David J. Anderson, David O. Buchholz, Attorneys, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae United States in support of Petitioners.

SCHLAM, STONE & DOLAN, New York, New York (Richard H. Dolan, Bennette D. Kramer, of counsel), filed a brief for Amicus Curiae Individual Claims Committee for the Austrian Bank Holocaust Litigation Settlement in Support of Respondent.

STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN, New York, New York (Charles G. Moerdler, Curtis C. Mechling, James A. Shifren, David A. Javdan, Joseph E. Strauss, of counsel), filed a brief for Amici Curiae Bank Austria AG and Creditanstalt AG.

Before: OAKES, KEARSE, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The present mandamus petitions center on multi-national efforts to provide restitution and compensation for victims of the Holocaust, resulting in agreements on July 17, 2000, to which the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany were parties (collectively the "Compact"), for, inter alia, the creation of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future" (the "German...

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