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NOREX PETROLEUM LTD. v. ACCESS INDUSTRIES, INC.

Docket No. 07-4553-cv.

631 F.3d 29 (2010)

NOREX PETROLEUM LIMITED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ACCESS INDUSTRIES, INC., Renova, Inc., Leonard Blavatnik, Victor Vekselberg, Alfa Group Consortium, Crown Finance Foundation, CTF Holdings, Ltd., Alfa Finance Holdings, S.A., Crown Luxembourg Holdings, S.A.R.L., Elliot Spitz, OAO TNK-BP Holding, Simon Kukes, Joseph Bakaleynik, LT Enterprises Limited, Sandwell Enterprises Limited, East-Mount Properties Limited, Aletar Company, Inc., Astons Trustees, Limited, BP P.L.C., Lord Browne of Madingley, Gilian Caine, Susan Cubbon, Robert Dudley, Simon Elmont, James Grassick, Kelland, German Khan, Alexey Kuzmitchev, Ozerla Business Corp., Valdimir Plouzhnikov, Robert Sheppard, Star Port LLC, TNK-BP Limited, Watford Limited, and TNK-BP International Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 28, 2010.

Amended: December 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J.W. Sherwin ( Eric H. Blinderman , on the brief), Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, Bruce S. Marks ( Maria Temkin , on the brief), Marks & Sokolov, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Owen C. Pell , White & Case LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: POOLER, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and PRESKA, Chief District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

The issue before us is whether a United States federal court can properly hear a claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., arising from allegations of a conspiracy which primarily involves foreign actors and foreign acts. Applying the Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., ___ U.S. ___,

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