UKRAINIAN NAT. ASS'N OF JEWISH PRISONERS v. U.S.

Nos. CV 01-6933, CV 01-7701.

178 F.Supp.2d 312 (2001)

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH FORMER PRISONERS OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS & GHETTOS, Association of Victims of Nazi Persecution (Bundesverband Informationa Und Beratung Für NS-Verfolgte), International Movement of Former Juvenile Nazi Prisoners, Association of Liberated Prisoners in the Czech Republic, Ukrainian Organization of Anti-Fascist Freedom Fighters, Polish American Congress, Ukrainian Association of Nazi Victims and Prisoners on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES Defendant. Burt Neuborne, in his capacity as an express lawyer-trustee of the German Foundation, "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future," and on behalf of the third-party beneficiaries of agreements leading to the establishment of the German Foundation; Roman Neuberger, Sylvia Greenbaum, and John Brand, in their individual capacities as third-party beneficiaries of the agreements leading to the establishment of the German Foundation, and as representatives of all German Foundation beneficiaries Plaintiffs, v. The German Foundation Industrial Initiative and its constituent managing companies, consisting of Allianz AG, BASF AG, Bayer AG, BMW AG, Commerzbank AG, DaimlerChrysler AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Degussa-Huells AG, Deutz AG, Dresdner Bank AG, Friedr. Krupp AG, Hoesch Krupp, Hoescht AG, RAG AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens AG, VEBA AG, and Volkswagen AG; and Bank Austria Creditanstalt and Hypo Vereinsbank AG. Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

December 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, New York, by Michael D. Hausfeld, Alexander E. Barnett, Smorodsky & Stawnychy, Rutherford, NJ, by Myroslaw Smorodsky, for Plaintiffs in CV 01-6933.

Burt Neuborne, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs in CV 01-7701.

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Washington, DC, by David J. Anderson, David O. Bucholz, Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, by Carolyn Lisa Miller, for the United States of America.

Nathanial S. Shapo, Director of Insurance, State of Illinois, Chicago, IL, for Declarant.

Lothar Evers, Member of the Kuratorium of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future" and Founding Director of the Association of Victims of Nazi Persecution (Bundesverband Information und Beratung fur NS-Verfolgte), Federal Republic of Germany, for Declarant.

Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, PA, for Declarant.

Roman R. Kent, Commission Member of the International Commission of Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, New York, for Declarant.


ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

1. Professor Burt Neuborne has moved to withdraw his complaint in Neuborne, et al. v. The German Foundation Industrial Initiative, et al., CV 01-7701. This motion is opposed. (Mem. in Opp'n to Burt Neuborne's Suppl. Decl.). Since there has been "no service by the adverse party of an answer," the motion is granted. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1), 41(a)(2). The Neuborne complaint is dismissed without...

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