Legal Opinion
Niemi v. Lasshofer
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 6, 2013No. 12-1233PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
An unconventional real estate financing scheme presents us with some unconventional legal questions. Questions ranging from whether an Austrian financier should be denied access to the American legal system because he failed to comply with an order freezing his assets worldwide—to whether the district court had the power to issue such a far-flying order in the first place.
Our case starts in Breckenridge and lean economic times. John Niemi and his business partners set out to build a large luxury ski condominium complex in two phases, working through a set of companies…
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