Legal Opinion
In Re Any & All Funds or Other Assets in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 9, 2009No. Civil Action 08-mc-0807PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.
Before the Court is the government’s application for a 10-day temporary restraining order. 1 To rule on that application, the Court must resolve a matter of first impression: the interpretation of a statute that gives federal courts jurisdiction to restrain property “subject to a foreign forfeiture or confiscation judgment.” 28 U.S.C. § 2467(d)(3). The Opportunity Fund (“Fund”), a target of the restraining order sought here, has objected to the government’s application. The Fund is restrained by three orders currently in place and would also be…
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