REPUBLIC OF IRAQ v. ABB AG

No. 08 Civ. 5951(SHS).

920 F.Supp.2d 517 (2013)

The REPUBLIC OF IRAQ, including as Parens Patriae on behalf of the Citizens of the Republic of Iraq, Plaintiff, v. ABB AG, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 6, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian Patrick Siebott , Stanley D. Bernstein , Brian Lehman , Bernstein Liebhard, LLP, Mark Maney , Maney & Gonzalez-Felix PC, Roliff Holmes Purrington , Burford & Maney P.C., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff.

James Philip Gillespie , John R. Bolton , Mark Champoux , Robert B. Gilmore , Thomas David Yannucci , Brant Warren Bishop , Ragan Naresh , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Mark H. Lynch , O. Thomas Johnson , Jr., Covington & Burling, L.L.P., Robert Stephen Bennett , Ellen Swennes Kennedy , Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Jennifer Lynn Spaziano , William John O'Brien, III , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Philip Eric Urofsky , Shearman & Sterling LLP, Michael Evan Horowitz , James K. Robinson , Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP, Robert P. Parker , Baker & McKenzie LLP, Richard D. Klingler , Sidley Austin LLP, Gregory L. Baker , Baker & Hostetler LLP, Robert A. Van Kirk , Katherine M. Turner , Philip A. Sechler , Williams & Connolly LLP, Michael R Miner , Drinker Biddle & Heathy LLP, Washington, DC, S. Alyssa Young , Leader & Berkon LLP, Aaron Hirsch Mendelsohn , Daniel Nathan Anziska , Elliot Cohen , Troutman Sanders LLP, Nancy Lynn Kestenbaum , Covington & Burling LLP, Robert H. Baron , Timothy Gray Cameron , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, H. Miriam Farber , Danforth Newcomb , Shearman & Sterling LLP, Thomas E. Lynch , Meir Feder , Phineas Edward Leahey , Chris J. Lopata , Jones Day , Jason Jurgens , Nathan Marshall Bull , Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Joann Kahn , Mark Allen Robertson , Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., David I. Zalman , Melissa Errine Byroade , Thomas Benjamin Kinzler , Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, Kenneth J. King , Pepper Hamilton, LLP, Dorothy Jane Spenner , Andrew Douglas Hart , Sidley Austin LLP, Mark S. Landman , Landman Corsi Ballain & Ford PC, John Patrick Doherty , Jennifer Susan Kozar , Karl Geercken , Alston & Bird, LLP, Peter Louis Altieri , David John Clark , Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., Brian Stryker Weinstein , Jason Bradley McCullough , Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., John David Harkrider , Evan Saul Storm , Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, Judith Ann Lockhart , Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Clay J. Pierce , Marsha Jessica Indych , Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, David Harold Braff , Penny Shane , Steven Robert Peikin , Sullivan and Cromwell, LLP, Andrew Hunter Reynard , Allen & Overy, LLP, Walter P. Loughlin , K & L Gates LLP, Casey Devin Laffey , Reed Smith , John Federick Pritchard , Pillsbury, Winthrop, LLP, Ranah Leila Esmaili , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, Steve Orlikoff , Darrell Prescott , Lawrence Walker Newman , Baker & McKenzie LLP, New York, NY, Christopher S. Riley , Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Indianapolis, IL, David Stephen Toy , David S. Toy, Esq. , Francis I. Spagnoletti , Spagnoletti & Co., John L. Shoemaker , EI Paso Corporation, Leland Curtis De La Garza , Timothy David Zeiger , Shabana N. Qaiser, Esq. , Houston, TX, Philip Warren Crawford , Jennifer Marino Thibodaux , Gibbons P.C., Thomas R. Valen , Gibbons, Del Deo et al., Newark, NJ, Larry R. Schmadeka , Lee, Hong , Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Robert Barnes Calihan , Calihan Law PLLC, Roch, NY, Pamela Kayatta Riewerts , Bowie & Jensen, LLC, Towson, MD, Brett A. Spain , Willcox & Savage P.C., Norfolk, VA, David M. Ryan , Fred A. Kelly , Jr., Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, MA, John G. Harkins , Jr., Harkins Cunningham LLP, Gregory P. Miller , Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, James William Abbott Ladner , St. Jude Medical, Inc., St. Paul, MN, Amy K. Pohl , Michael H. Ginsberg Jones Day, Pittsburgh, PA, Carl A. Parker , The Parker Law Firm, Port Arthur, TX, Hector Canales , Tony Canales , Canales & Simonsen, Courpus Christi, TX, J.A. Canales , Canales & Simonson, P.C., Corpus Christi, TX, Casey L. Westover , Richard Wray , Reed Smith LLP, Gregory J. Wallance , Kaye Scholer LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


OPINION & ORDER

SIDNEY H. STEIN, District Judge.

CONTENTS

   I. Background ...................................................................524

      A. The Iraqi sanctions .......................................................524

      B. The Oil-for-Food Programme in Design ......................................525

         1. The UN escrow account ..................................................526

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