Legal Opinion

Estate of Yevgenyi Scherban v. Suntrust Bank

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided January 25, 2018No. Civil Action No. 2015-1966Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEBORAH A. TRUDEL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 15-1966 (JEB) SUNTRUST BANK, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case revolves around a decades-old family saga that, as this Court observed in a previous Opinion, reads like the plot of one of John le Carré’s Cold War novels. It opens in 1996 with the airport assassinations of Yevgenyi Scherban, a Ukrainian politician and businessman, and Nadejda Nikitina, his wife. Scherban left more than $100 million behind, along with three sons — Evgenyi, Ruslan, and Yevgen — who…

2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Scott v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  4. Holcomb, Christine v. Powell, DonaldCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2006
  5. Etim U. Aka v. Washington Hospital CenterCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1998

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