IN RE HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION

Docket No. 04-2511-CV.

424 F.3d 158 (2005)

In re HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION Pink Triangle Coalition, Karl Lange and Pierre Seel, Interested-Party-Appellants, v. Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corp., also known as Swiss National Bank, Banking Institutions # 1-100, John Does # 1-100, Certain Swiss Bank Accounts described as follows, Swiss Bankers Assoc., Swiss Bankers Association and Bank of International Settlements, Defendants-Appellees, Polish American Defense Committee, Inc., a non-profit California Corporation, Irving Wolf, Disability Rights Advocates and Director of International Affairs and Representative to the United Nations of Agudath Israel World Organization, Movants, Judah Gribetz, Special Master, Gizella Weisshaus, on behalf of herself and all other persons of all national origins, ethnic groups, races, creeds and colors, similarly situated as victims and survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, Jacob Friedman and Samuel J. Dubbin, Plaintiffs, World Jewish Restitution Organization, South Florida Holocaust Coalition and Thomas Weiss, Intervenor-Plaintiffs, Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Gregory Tsvilichovsky, Matvey Yentus, Sofiya Bloshteyn, Olga Tsvilikhovskya, Larisa Ryabaya, Rosa Yentus, Pavel Aronov, Lubov Starodinskaya, Eliazar Bloshteyn and Plaintiff's Executive Committee Settlement Class, Interested-Parties.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick T. Davis, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, N.Y. (Irina Dragulev, M. Asher F. Richelli, Vikram Sidhu, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY; Susan Sommer, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY) for Appellants.

Burt Neuborne, New York, N.Y. (Melvyn I. Weiss, Deborah M. Sturman, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, NY; Morris A. Ratner, Caryn Becker, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY) for Appellees.

Before: MESKILL, NEWMAN, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

Two named individuals and the Pink Triangle Coalition ("PTC"), a consortium of international gay and lesbian organizations, appeal from the orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Edward R. Korman, Chief Judge) entered on April 2, 2004 and May 20, 2004. In its orders, the District Court declined to adopt the PTC's proposal for the allocation of the historic settlement of Holocaust...

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