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IN RE PHILIPPINE NAT'L. BANK

No. 04-71843.

397 F.3d 768 (2005)

In re PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK, Philippine National Bank, Petitioner, v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, Respondent, Maximo Hilao; Estate of Ferdinand Marcos; Imelda R. Marcos; Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., Real Parties in Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 4, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay R. Ziegler, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.

Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC, Philadelphia, PA; John J. Bartko, William I. Edlund, Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, San Francisco, CA; for real parties in interest.

Before: GOODWIN, CANBY, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

The Philippine National Bank petitions this court for a writ of mandamus to prevent the district court from pursuing contempt and discovery proceedings against the Bank because of the Bank's transfer of funds to the Republic of the Philippines pursuant to a judgment of the Philippine Supreme Court.1 We conclude that the district court's orders violated the act of state doctrine, and we accordingly issue the writ....

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