TIRE ENGINEERING & DISTRIBUTION v. BANK OF CHINA

Nos. 13-1519-cv, 13-2535-cv(L), 13-2639-cv(con).

740 F.3d 108 (2014)

TIRE ENGINEERING AND DISTRIBUTION L.L.C., Jordan Fishman, Bearcat Tire A.R.L., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Bcatco A.R.L., Plaintiff, v. BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, Defendant-Appellee. Motorola Credit Corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee, Nokia Corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, Motorola, Inc., Kroll Associates Inc., Christopher B. Galvin, Keith J. Bane, Walter Keating, Ed Hughes, Ernst Kramer, Counter Defendants, v. Standard Chartered Bank, Appellee-Cross Appellant, Murat Hakan Uzan, Cem Cengiz Uzan, Defendants-Counter-Claimants, Kemal Uzan, Libananco Holdings Co. Limited, Melahat Uzan, Aysegul Akay, Antonio Luna Betancourt, Unikom Iletism Hizmetleri Pazarlama A.S., Standart Pazarlama A.S., Standart Telekomunikayson Bilgisayar Hizmetleri A.S., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 14, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Edgar Copley, III ( Stephen Adam Weisbrod , on the brief), Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC, Washington, D.C., and Stephen Zoltan Starr , Starr & Starr, PLLC, New York, NY, for Tire Engineering and Distribution, L.L.C., Bcatco A.R.L., Jordan Fishman, and Bearcat Tire A.R.L.

Pamela Chepiga ( Andrew Rhys Davies , Molly Spieczny , on the brief), Allen & Overy LLP, New York, NY, for Bank of China Limited.

Howard H. Stahl ( George R. Calhoun , on the brief), Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Washington D.C., for Motorola Credit Corporation, and Nokia Corporation.

Bruce Edward Clark ( Patrick B. Berarducci , Sharon L. Nelles , Bradley P. Smith , on the brief), Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY, for Standard Chartered Bank.

Dwight A. Healy , White & Case LLP, for Amici Curiae Institute of International Bankers, The Clearing House, European Banking Federation, and New York Bankers Association.

Before: CALABRESI, CHIN, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


CHIN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals, heard in tandem, challenge two orders entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Carter, J., and Rakoff, J.), holding that the separate entity rule precludes a court from ordering a garnishee bank with branches in New York to turn over or restrain assets of judgment debtors held in foreign branches of the bank. In both cases, the plaintiff judgment creditors ("plaintiffs") contend...

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