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IN RE REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES

Nos. 01-71841, 02-15340.

309 F.3d 1143 (2002)

In re REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES; In re Presidential Commission on Good Government, The Republic of the Philippines; Presidential Commission on Good Government, Petitioners, v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, Respondent, Arelma Inc.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.; Suntrust Investment Co., S.A.; John K. Burns; Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Imelda R. Marcos, Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., Maria Imelda Marcos, Irene Marcos Araneta; Frontier Risk Capital Management L.L.C.; ENC Corporation; Grosvenor Capital, Ltd.; Estate of Roger Roxas; the Golden Budha Corporation; Mariano J. Pimentel, on behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated, Real Parties in Interest. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware with its principal place of business in New York, NY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arelma Inc.; ENC Corporation; Suntrust Investment Co., S.A.; John K. Burns; the Estate of Ferdinand Marcos; Imelda R. Marcos; Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.; Maria Imelda Marcos; Irene Marcos Araneta; Frontier Risk Capital Management, L.C.C.; Grosvenor Capital, Ltd.; the Estate of Roger Roxas; Golden Budha Corp.; Mariano J. Pimentel; Philippine National Bank, Defendants, and Presidential Commission on Good Government, a government agency of the Republic of the Philippines; Republic of the Philippines, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 31, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen V. Bomse, Rachel M. Jones, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Jay R. Ziegler, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for the defendants-appellees.

Daniel C. Cathcart, Magaña, Cathcart & McCarthy, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

A. Robert Pietrzak, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, New York, NY, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge.

This interpleader litigation is part of an on-going dispute between the Philippine government and creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos over assets Marcos allegedly secreted from the government while he was President of the Philippines. This litigation concerns the assets of Arelma Incorporated, a Panamanian company Marcos created. The assets were held in an account in New York by Merrill Lynch, the plaintiff in this action, until...

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