KENSINGTON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Bruno Jean-Richard ITOUA and Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo, Defendants-Appellants,
BNP Paribas S.A., Defendant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: May 30, 2007.
Decided: October 18, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael T. Stolper Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Matthew L. Craner, David M. Powers, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Jonathan E. Polonsky, Shari Markowitz Savitt, Hermann Ferre, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellant Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua.
Arthur R. Miller, Cambridge, MA (Bennette Deacy Kramer, David J. Katz, Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP, New York, NY, on the brief) for Appellant Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo.
Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington D.C. (Robert A. Cohen, Dechert LLP; Kevin Samuel Reed, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, New York, NY; Matthew D. McGill, Claudia M. Osorio, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Appellee Kensington International Limited.
Serrin Turner, Assistant United States Attorney, for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (Peter Keisler, David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorneys; Michael S. Raab, Eric J. Feigin, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington D.C., on the brief) for Amicus Curiae United States of America.
Before: KEARSE, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
POOLER, Circuit Judge:
Defendants-appellants Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo ("SNPC") and Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua ("Itoua") appeal from portions of the March 31, 2006 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Preska, J.) denying appellants' motions to dismiss based on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") and for lack of personal jurisdiction. We hold that SNPC is immune under the FSIA,...
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