Legal Opinion
Arab Monetary Fund v. Hashim (In re Hashim)
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 30, 2000No. 98-17128PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the bankruptcy court erred in denying comity to a British court’s unliquidated award of court costs and attorneys’ fees because the award was “repugnant to the principles of American jurisprudence.”
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This is an appeal of the bankruptcy court’s order disallowing three identical claims filed by the Arab Monetary Fund (“AMF”) in three individual bankruptcy proceedings. The three debtors whose bankruptcies are affected by the order are the members of the nuclear family of Dr. Jawad Hashim (“Hashim”). Salwa Al-Ru-faiee is his wife, and Jafar and…
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