FONTANA v. REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA

No. 19-595 August Term, 2019.

962 F.3d 667 (2020)

Hernan Lopez FONTANA, Mariana Mori de Lopez, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA, Defendant-Appellee, v. Guillermo Gleizer, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided, June 18, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zachary G. Meyer , Sutton Sachs Meyer PLLC, New York, NY, for Movant-Appellant.

Mariana Mori de Lopez, pro se, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Rahul Mukhi ( Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Jr. , on the brief), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Katzmann, Chief Judge, Wesley and Park, Circuit Judges.


In this case, we consider in principal part whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") bars enforcement of New York Judiciary Law § 475 against the Republic of Argentina, and whether an attorney who secured a judgment for plaintiffs in Argentine bond litigation retains a lien, pursuant to New York Judiciary...

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