Legal Opinion
United States v. Swiss American Bank, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 10, 1999No. 99-1012PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises issues of first impression, requiring us to delineate the circumstances under which foreign corporations may be brought before the federal courts through the medium of a recently enacted provision of the Civil Rules. In the underlying case, the government brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against several foreign banking concerns in an effort to recover assets accumulated by a convicted felon and later forfeited to the government as part of a plea bargain. The district court accepted the defendants’…
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