| Yemen Found
Liable for $3M in Oil Case But FRBNY Cites
Its Immunity to Withhold Central Bank Info
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 23 – The Republic of
Yemen, such as it is, was sued
by Gujarat State Petroleum
Corp. Ltd. and lost by
default.
DDC Judge
Dabney L. Friedrich, now
presiding over many January 6
Capitol breach cases,
found the Republic of Yemen
liable for over $3 million.
But
that was just the beginning.
Now Gujurat wants information
about Yemen's central bank
account from the Federal
Reserve Bank of New
York.
On
November 23, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Ronnie Abrams held an
in-person oral argument.
Inner City Press went and
covered it.
The Federal
Reserve Bank of New York ,
which is not a governmental
entity, is seeking to use the
sovereign immunity of Yemen,
which many view for now as a
Saudi protectorate, to quash
Gujarat's subpoena.
For this
proposition, the FRBNY cites
another SDNY case Inner City
Press has been covering:
Preble-Rish Haiti, S.A. v.
Republic of Haiti, 21-cv-4960
(Castel).
But
Gujarat on November 23 counted
with a District of
Massachusetts case about
Kazakhstan for which is
quickly read out the LEXIS and
Westlaw citations.
The acoustics in
the SDNY courtrooms, at least
in 40 Foley Square, don't
match what has been and in
some cases still is with
call-in lines.
Judge
Abrams promised the party a
timely ruling, which Inner
City Press aims to cover.
The case is
Gujarat State Petroleum
Corporation Ltd. et al v.
Republic of Yemen et al.,
19-mc-547 (Abrams)
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