CIVIL PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW, INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. ENC Corp.

CIVIL PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. ENC Corp., No. 04-16401, 04-16503, 04-16538 (9th Cir. May 04, 2006)

In an interpleader action, a decision of the district court awarding funds in dispute to a class of human rights victims represented by an individual is affirmed with modification where the Republic of the Philippines and the Presidential Commission on Good Government (the PCGG) were not indispensable parties under Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(b).

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