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GARB v. REPUBLIC OF POLAND

Docket No. 02-7844.

440 F.3d 579 (2006)

Theo GARB, Bella Jungewirth, Sam Lefkowitz, Peter Koppenheim, Judah Weller, Chana Lewkowicz, Samuel Goldin, Karl Dlamond, Hala Sobol, Saul Klausner, and Goldie Knobel, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. REPUBLIC OF POLAND, Ministry of the Treasury of Poland (Ministerstwo Skarbu Panstwa), and John Does #1-100, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Remanded June 14, 2004.

Submitted September 10, 2004.

Decided March 3, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Whinston (Edward W. Millstein, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Edward E. Klein, Klein & Solomon, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Garb, et al.

Owen C. Pell (Karen M. Asner, on the brief), White & Case LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Republic of Poland, et al.

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier (William H. Taft IV, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Wynne M. Teel, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Gregory G. Katsas, Jr., Mark B. Stern, on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States of America in support of Defendant-Appellee Republic of Poland.

Charles Chotkowski, Fairfield, CT, Amicus Curiae.

Before KEARSE, CABRANES, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Judge STRAUB dissents in a separate opinion.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

We consider here claims emerging from the re-drawing of the map of Europe following the defeat of the Axis Powers in the Second World War, the displacement of millions of people, particularly surviving Jews, in much of the continent, and the installation by force of governments in Central and Eastern Europe. See Michael R. Marrus, The Unwanted European Refugees in...

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