HAUSLER v. JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Nos. 12-1264 (Lead), 12-1272(Con), 12-1384(Con), 12-1386(Con), 13-1463(Con), 12-1466(Con), 12-1945(Con).

770 F.3d 207 (2014)

Jeannette Fuller HAUSLER, as Successor Personal Representative of The Estate of Robert Otis Fuller, Deceased, on behalf of Thomas Caskey as Personal Representative of The Estate of Lynita Fuller Caskey surviving daughter of Robert Otis Fuller, and Jeannette Hausler, Plaintiff-Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, Estate of Robert Otis Fuller, Frederick Fuller, Grace Lutes, Irene Moss, and Frances Fuller, Plaintiffs-Third-Party Defendants, v. JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Citibank, N.A., Royal Bank of Scotland N.V., fka ABN Amro Bank N.V., Bank of America Corporation, UBS AG, and Bank of America N.A., Defendants-Garnishees-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, Dresdner Lateinamerika AG, fka Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika AG, Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Petroleos De Venezuela, S.A., Fundacion Benfica Nicolas S. Acea, Pablo Alcazar, as trustee of Fundacion Benefica Nicolas S. Acea, Mayra Bustaments, and Rene Silva, Jr., as trustee of Fundacion Benefica Nicolas S. Acea, Third-Party Defendants, Republic Of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, Individually, As First Vice President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers and Head of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, El Ministerio Del Interior, Defendants-Third-Party Defendants, v. LTU Lufttransportunternehmen, LTU Gmbh In Care Of Kirstein & Young PLLC 1750 K Street NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20006, Consolidated-Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Panama, S.A., Claimants-Appellants, Estudios Mercados y Suministros, S.L., Philips Mexicana S.A. DE C.V., Novafin Financiere, S.A., Respondents-Appellants, Caja De Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, Premuda S.P.A., Interpleaders-Appellants, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co. Ltd., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, ADR Provider-Appellant, Banco Santander S.A., Caja Madrid, Banco Espanol De Credito, Banco Santander Totta, S.A., Union Bancaire Privee, Banco Central De Venezuela, and Banco De Desarrollo Economico y Social De Venezuela, Respondents, San Paolo Bank S.A. and ING Bank N.V., Claimants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 27, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Alan Baron , James Wilson Perkins , Robert Phillip Charrow , and Laura Metcoff Klaus , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Washington, D.C. for Jeannette Hausler, Estate of Robert Otis Fuller, Frederick Fuller, Grace Lutes, Irene Moss, and Frances Fuller.

Juancarlos Sanchez, Esq. And Wilfredo A. Rodriguez , Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP, Coral Gables, FL, for Banco Santander, S.A., Caja Madrid, Caja de Ahorros y Monte do Piedad de Madrid, and Caja Madrid.

Bernard James Garbutt, III , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY, for Banco Espanol De Credito, Banco Santander Totta, S.A., Union Bancaire Privee, Banco Central de Venezuela, Banco de Desarrollo Economico y Social de Venezuela, Estudios Mercados y Suministros, S.L., and Philips Mexicana S.A. de C.V.

Matthew Belz , Kenneth Caruso , and Glenn M. KURTZ , White & Case LLP, New York, NY, for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina Panama, S.A., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co. Ltd.

James L. Kerr and Karen E. Wagner , Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, New York for San Paolo Bank, S.A., ING Bank, N.V., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Citibank, N.A., The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V., Bank of America, Corp., UBS AG, and Bank of America N.A.

David Michael Kirstein , Kirstein & Young PLLC, Washington, DC, for LTU LuftransportUnternehmen, LTU Gmbh In Care of Kirstein & Young PLLC

Claurisse Campanale-Orozco , Tisdale Law Offices, LLC, New York, NY, for Premuda S.p.A.

David S. Jones , United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for the United States of America.

Before: HALL, LYNCH, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Before us on appeal is a matter of first impression regarding the interpretation of § 201 of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1610 note) ("TRIA"). The plaintiffs-appellees (collectively "Hausler") are family members or trustees of the estates of victims of state-sponsored terrorism. They seek to enforce their 2009 Florida state court judgment ("the underlying judgment...

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