Legal Opinion
Af-Cap Inc. v. Chevron Overseas (Congo) Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 24, 2007No. 04-16387, 04-16388, 04-16788 and 04-16810PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge.
In this consolidated action, Af-Cap Inc. (Af-Cap), the judgment creditor, appeals the district court’s judgment dissolving and vacating garnishments and liens filed against any property of the Republic of Congo (the Congo), the judgment debtor, held by third party ChevronTexaco Corporation (CT Corp) and domestic Chevron-Texaco subsidiaries (collectively Chevron-Texaco), and dismissing Af-Cap’s writ of execution action filed against ChevronTex-aco, three ChevronTexaco foreign subsidiaries, and the Congo, a sovereign country.
The Congo asserts a sovereign immunity…
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