Bernstein v. NV NEDERLANDSCHE-AMERIKAANSCHE, ETC.
Decision Date | 05 February 1954 |
Docket Number | No. 21193.,21193. |
Citation | 210 F.2d 375 |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
Parties | BERNSTEIN v. N. V. NEDERLANDSCHE-AMERIKAANSCHE STOOMVAART-MAATSCHAPPIJ (Chemical Bank & Trust Co., Third-Party Defendant). |
Bennet, House & Couts, New York City, for plaintiff-petitioner; Victor House, Albert I. Edelman and Werner Ilsen, New York City, of counsel.
Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, New York City, for defendantHolland-America Line; Harold M. Kennedy, and Hervey C. Allen, Jr., New York City, of counsel.
Shearman & Sterling & Wright, New York City, for Third-Party Defendant, Chemical Bank & Trust Company; John A. Wilson, M. VanVoorhies and Edmond K. Leach, New York City, of counsel.
Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges.
In the prior appeal in this case, 173 F.2d 71, 75-76, because of the lack of a definitive expression of Executive Policy, we felt constrained to follow the decision of this court in Bernstein v. Van Heyghen Freres Societe Anonyme, 2 Cir., 163 F.2d 246, certiorari denied332 U.S. 772, 68 S.Ct. 88, 92 L.Ed. 357, by ordering the plaintiff to refrain from alleging matters which would cause the court to pass on the validity of acts of officials of the German government.Following our decision, however, the State Department issued Press ReleaseNo. 296 on April 27, 1949, entitled: "Jurisdiction of United States Courts Re Suits for Identifiable Property Involved in Nazi Forced Transfers."The substance of this Release follows:
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