Legal Opinion
Arch Trading Corp. v. Republic of Ecuador
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 14, 2016No. Docket No. 15-2065(L), 15-2106(con)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judge:
We are faced here with a question of subject matter jurisdiction over a dispute with a vanishingly thin, if any, connection to the United States. Plaintiffs-appellants are five entities incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. They claim that in 2008, an agency of the Republic of Ecuador unlawfully seized their “property in Ecuador”— primarily, their ownership of over 100 companies located there. Joint Appendix (“J.A.”) at 12. In 2013, they filed suit in the Southern District of New York seeking over $1 billion in damages from defendants-appellees the…
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