BASSIDJI v. GOE

No. 02-16019.

413 F.3d 928 (2005)

Massoud BASSIDJI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Simon Soul Sun GOE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted February 23, 2004.

Filed June 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori A. Lutzker and W. George Wailes, Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn, Burlingame, CA, for the defendant-appellant.

Douglas A. Applegate and Mark W. Epstein, Seiler Epstein Ziegler & Applegate LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: KOZINSKI, GRABER, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.


BERZON, Circuit Judge:

Executive Order 13,059 (the "Executive Order" or "Order"), 62 Fed.Reg. 44,531 (Aug. 21, 1997), prohibits United States citizens from investing in and trading with Iran.1 The question we face is whether an American citizen's guarantees of payments that furthered a trade agreement with an Iranian company are covered by the Executive Order and, if so, whether the guarantees are unenforceable as a result. We conclude...

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