FILLER v. HANVIT BANK

Docket Nos. 03-7861(L), 03-7871(CON), 03-7863(L), 03-7893(CON).

378 F.3d 213 (2004)

Gary B. FILLER, trustee of the TRA Rights Trust and Lawrence Perlman, trustee of the TRA Rights Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HANVIT BANK and Chohung Bank, Defendants-Appellants, Shinhan Bank, Defendant. Janet Baker, James Baker, JKBaker, LLC, and JMBaker, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Hanvit Bank and Chohung Bank, Defendants-Appellants, Shinhan Bank, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory P. Joseph, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices, LLC, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Gary B. Filler and Lawrence Perlman.

Karen C. Dyer, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Janet Baker, James Baker, JKBaker LLC, and JMBaker LLC.

Daniel L. Brockett, (Mark C. Dosker, Rebecca W. Haverstick, on the brief), Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Chohung Bank.

Steven M. Bierman, (Alan M. Unger, Daniel A. McLaughlin, Mark E. Walli, Catherine B. Winter, Allen C. Kim, on the brief), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Hanvit Bank.

Before: JACOBS, STRAUB, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

Defendants-appellants Hanvit Bank and Chohung Bank (the "Banks") appeal from interlocutory orders of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Cedarbaum, J.) concluding that the Banks were not "foreign states" entitled to immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA"), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1602 et seq. The orders vacated previous ones granting immunity under the FSIA with...

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