Ursula Ungaro-Benages v. Dresdner Bank AG

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant, Ursula Ungaro-Be-nages, filed suit against two German banks, Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank, to recover assets from her family’s estate. The plaintiff alleges that the banks, through the Nazi Regime’s program of “Aryanization,” stole her family’s interest in its manufacturing company, Orenstein & Koppel (“O&K”). The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant banks on multiple grounds, including the political question doctrine, international comity, statute of limitations and failure to state a claim. For the reasons that follow, we…