VIRTUAL COUNTRIES v. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Docket No. 01-7900.

300 F.3d 230 (2002)

VIRTUAL COUNTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, a Foreign State, and South African Tourism Board, an Agency or Instrumentality of a Foreign State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxim H. Waldbaum, Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn Christy & Viener (Lora A. Moffatt, Lori D. Greendorfer, and Joseph E. Petersen, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David B. Goldstein, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York, N.Y. (Roger Bearden, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York, NY, and Terry Gross, Gross & Belsky LLP, San Francisco, CA, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MINER and SACK, Circuit Judges, and BERMAN, District Judge.


SACK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Virtual Countries, Inc., appeals from a June 28, 2001 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Allen G. Schwartz, Judge) that dismissed its petition for relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-02, based on the court's conclusion that defendants Republic of South Africa (the "Republic") and the South African Tourism Board ("Satour") have sovereign immunity...

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