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SOUTHWAY v. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

No. 98-1112.

198 F.3d 1210 (1999)

Henry T. SOUTHWAY, aka Butch Southway; Southway Construction Company, Inc.; Douglas Houghton; Randy Thurston; J.E. Losavio, Jr.; Russ Gray, dba Gray Real Estate, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA; Republic of Nigeria, Defendants-Appellants, and Law Firm of Kirk P. Brown, P.C.; Kirk Patterson Brown, dba The Communications Connection, individually; Helen Tomicich, dba The Communications Connection, individually, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 9, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Losavio, Jr., Law Offices of J.E. Losavio, Pueblo, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Steven David Plissey (Michael A. Williams with him on the brief), of Williams, Youle & Koenigs, P.C., Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before TACHA, HOLLOWAY, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

The general immunity provision of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330, 1602-1611, provides:

Subject to existing international agreements to which the United States is a party at the time of enactment of this Act, a foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and of the States except as provided in sections 1605 to 1607 of this chapter.

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