Legal Opinion
EIE Guam Corp. v. Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 27, 2003No. Nos. 02-16214, 02-16259PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION GRABER, Circuit Judge.
We are called on to decide whether a voluntarily joined foreign sovereign may remove a case from a territorial court to a federal district court when the foreign sovereign obtained the original defendant’s interest by assignment after the commencement of the litigation. We answer that question “yes” and, accordingly, affirm the district court’s exercise of jurisdiction over this case.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
EIE Guam Corporation (“EIEG”) is a Guam corporation that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese corporation, EIE International, Inc. In July of…
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