GUEVARA v. REPUBLIC OF PERU

No. 08-17213.

608 F.3d 1297 (2010)

Jose GUEVARA, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellee, Luis Alfredo Percovich, Proposed Intervenor-Appellant, v. REPUBLIC OF PERU, Ministerio Del Inter, Defendants-Counter-Claimants Cross-Appellants, Antonio Ketin Vidal, Individually, Fernando Rospigliosi, Individually, Department of Justice, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen H. Curtis, Clarke Silverglate Campbell & Montgomery, Miami, FL, for Percovich.

Mark A. Cymrot, Washington, DC, for Republic of Peru.

Andrene L.K. Smith, Washington, DC, for Ministerio Del Inter.

Brant C. Hadaway, Carlos Fernando Gonzalez, Michael Diaz, Jr., Diaz Reus Ralff & Targ, LLP, Miami, FL, Ambika J. Biggs, Johnine P. Barnes, Washington, DC, Matthew P. Julian, Baker & Hostler, LLP, Orlando, FL, for Guevara.

Douglas N. Letter, Dept. of Justice, Nicholas Bagley, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Before TJOFLAT and COX, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The Republic of Peru, two of its ministries, and two of its government officials (collectively "Peru") appeal the district court's award of summary judgment to Jose Guevara on Guevara's claim that Peru owed him $5 million in reward money for information that led to the arrest of Peru's former spy chief, Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres ("Montesinos"). Peru contends that the district court should have recognized its sovereign immunity and therefore...

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