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McKESSON CORP. v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 10-7174.

672 F.3d 1066 (2012)

McKESSON CORPORATION, et al., Appellees v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Appellant Financial Organization for the Expansion of Ownership of Productive Units, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher J. Wright argued the cause for appellant. On the briefs were Thomas G. Corcoran Jr. , Laina C. Wilk Lopez , and Henry M. Lloyd .

Mark N. Bravin argued the cause for appellees McKesson Corporation, et al. With him on the briefs was Mark R. Joelson . David M. Kerr entered an appearance.

H. Thomas Byron, III , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause as amicus curiae United States. With him on the brief were Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Ronald C. Machen Jr. , U.S. Attorney, Douglas N. Letter , Attorney, and Harold Hongju Koh , Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.

BROWN, Circuit Judge:

This decades-long dispute boils down to a rather simple set of allegations: McKesson Corporation, a U.S. company, claims that after the Islamic Revolution, the government of Iran expropriated McKesson's interest in an Iranian dairy and withheld its dividend payments. McKesson filed its complaint in 1982, and the procedural nightmare that followed resembles the harshest caricature of the American litigation...

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