Deripaska v. United States Department of the Treasury

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) OLEG DERIPASKA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. 19-cv-00727 (APM) ) JANET L. YELLEN1 et al., ) ) Defendants. ) _________________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION I. INTRODUCTION In response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, President Barack Obama declared a series of escalating national emergencies and authorized the Department of the Treasury to sanction Russian individuals and entities that met specified criteria. Plaintiff Oleg Deripaska, a…