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MAGNESS v. RUSSIAN FEDERATION

No. 00-20136.

247 F.3d 609 (2001)

Nina Schroder MAGNESS; Agnes Schroder Atkins; Lee Alexander Magness, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. RUSSIAN FEDERATION; et al., Defendants, Russian Federation; Russian Ministry of Culture; Russian State Diamond Fund, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 24, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel B. Nelson (argued), Lee Alexander Magness (argued), Law Offices of Daniel B. Nelson, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Martin Mendelsohn (argued), Orlando E. Vidal, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Coke Morgan Stewart, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Douglas N. Letter (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

Before JOLLY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

During the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, the Soviet government expropriated a piano factory and mansion owned by the Magness family in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1994, the appellees, descendants of the Magness family, believed that changes in the laws of the Russian Federation may now authorize the recovery of their property. The Magness descendants met with Russian officials in St. Petersburg in an unsuccessful attempt to regain the...

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