IN RE HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION

Docket No. 04-2466-CV.

424 F.3d 169 (2005)

In re HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION Miriam Rubin, Individual Holocaust Survivor, Doris Fedrid, Individual Holocaust Survivor, Helga Gross, Individual Holocaust Survivor, National Federation of the Blind, USA, German Council of Centers for Self-Determined Living of Disabled People, Germany, Finist, Russia, Equal Ability Limited, United Kingdom, Through the Looking Glass, USA, Disabled Persons International, Canada, World Institute on Disability, USA, Center for Independent Living, Bulgaria, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, US, Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, USA, California Foundation for Independent Living Center, San Francisco, USA, Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco, Computer Technologies Program, USA, Ragged Edge/Avacado Press, USA, Legal Advocacy for the Defense of People with Disabilities, Japan, National Confederation of Disabled Persons, Greece and De Jure Alapitvany, Hungary, Appellants, 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 and Jacob Friedman, Plaintiffs, World Jewish Restitution Organization, South Florida Holocaust Coalition and Thomas Weiss, Intervenors-Plaintiffs, v. Plaintiffs' Executive Committee Settlement Class, Interested-Party-Appellee, Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Gregory Tsvilichovsky, Matvey Yentus, Sofiya Bloshteyn, Olga Tsvilikhovskya, Larisa Ryabaya, Roza Yentus, Pavel Aronov, Lubov Starodinskaya and Eliazar Bloshteyn, Interested-Parties, 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: All accounts and funds maintained at Credit Suisse, or any other financial institution in Switzerland held in the name or for the benefit of, Swiss Bankers Assoc., Swiss Bankers Association and Bank of International Settlements, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sid Wolinsky, Disability Rights Advocates, Oakland, CA 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.

Three named individuals and several organizations representing persons with disabilities appeal from memoranda and orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Edward R. Korman, Chief Judge) dated April 2, April 12, and April 21, 2004. In its memoranda and orders, the District Court declined to adopt the proposal of Disability Rights Advocates ("DRA"), a non-profit law center that exclusively...

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