Legal Opinion
John Garamendi v. Jean-Francois Hennin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2012No. 10-57000, 10-57009PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
Defendant Jean-Frangois Hénin served as an officer of a French corporation that bought assets from an insolvent California insurance company pursuant to a rehabilitation plan. It later emerged that Hénin and others involved in the purchase had misrepresented certain key facts, making their purchase illegal under California law. In the ensuing litigation, Sierra National Insurance Holdings, Inc., came to hold two default judgments against Hénin in federal court. When Sierra tried to enforce those judgments in Hénin’s home country of France, a French court refused,…
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