HELMERICH & PAYNE INTERNATIONAL DRILLING CO. v. BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

No. 13-7169, Consolidated with 13-7170, 14-7008.

HELMERICH & PAYNE INTERNATIONAL DRILLING CO., Appellee, HELMERICH & PAYNE DE VENEZUELA, C.A. Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA, ET AL., Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 7, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine E. Stetson argued the cause for the appellants/cross-appellees. With her on the briefs were William L. Monts, III , Mitchell P. Reich , Bruce D. Oakley , Joseph D. Pizzurro , Robert B. García , Kevin A. Meehan , and Juan O. Perla .

Catherine M.A. Carroll argued the cause for appellees/cross-appellant. With her on the briefs were David W. Ogden and David W. Bowker .

Jessie K. Liu, U.S. Attorney, and Douglas N. Letter , Sharon Swingle , and Lewis S. Yelin , Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, were on the brief for amicus curiae United States of America.

Opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment filed by Senior Circuit Judge SENTELLE.


After Venezuela and two of its agencies seized all assets of an American drilling company's Venezuelan subsidiary, both parent and subsidiary sued in federal court. In a prior opinion, we held that, notwithstanding the defendants' efforts to invoke sovereign immunity, both companies' suits could go forward because each company...

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