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NAHL v. JAOUDE

Docket No. 19-1467 August Term, 2019.

968 F.3d 173 (2020)

Ghazi Abu NAHL, on behalf of Lebanese Canadian Bank, Nest Investments Holding Lebanon Sal, on behalf of Lebanese Canadian Bank, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Georges Zard Abou JAOUDE, Mohamad Hamdoun, Ahmad Safa, Defendants-Appellants, Lebanese Canadian Bank, Nominal-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 30, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian J. Pistilli ( Anthony Herman , Dennis B. Auerbach , Andrew E. Siegel , on the brief), Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Mitchell R. Berger , Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: Walker, Pooler, and Lynch, Circuit Judges.

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