Legal Opinion

Trudel v. SunTrust Bank

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided January 25, 2018No. Civil Action No. 15–1966 (JEB)PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge

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 have since engaged in a global hunt for their missing inheritance.

This latest chapter concerns but a small sliver of the family fortune-namely,…

2Cases cited41 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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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Deborah Trudel v. SunTrust BankCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2019
  2. Trudel v. Suntrust BankCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
  3. Butt v. U.S. Department of JusticeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2020
  4. Cogdell v. MurphyDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2023
  5. Cross Oil Refining & Marketing, Inc. v. ReganDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2022

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