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NORTHROP GRUMMAN SHIP v. REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

No. 07-60861.

575 F.3d 491 (2009)

NORTHROP GRUMMAN SHIP SYSTEMS INC., formerly known as Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Scruggs Law Firm, P.A.; Richard F. Scruggs; Podhurst Orseck, PA, Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 9, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Coyne, Jr., Kenneth A. O'Brien (argued), Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles, CA, Richard P. Salloum, Gulfport, MS, for Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc.

David Wayne Shelton, Oxford, MS, George Stigler Shaddock, Shaddock & Associates, Pascagoula, MS, for Scruggs Law Firm, P.A., Richard F. Scruggs.

Stephen F. Rosenthal, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, Miami, FL, George Stigler Shaddock, Shaddock & Associates, Pascagoula, MS, for Podhurst Orseck, P.A.

James L. Robertson (argued), Mark Johnson Goldberg, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Ministry of Defense of Republic of Venezuela.

Before REAVLEY, BARKSDALE and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

This case began as a suit for contract damages initiated by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems ("Northrop"), a shipbuilder based in Mississippi, against the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Venezuela ("the Republic"). Several years into the litigation, one of the Republic's attorneys, Richard F. Scruggs ("Scruggs") of Mississippi, purported to agree to a settlement by which the Republic would pay Northrop $70 million to resolve all...

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