NIEMI v. LASSHOFER

No. 12-1233.

728 F.3d 1252 (2013)

John NIEMI; Robert Naegele, III; Jesper Parnevik, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Erwin LASSHOFER; Innovatis GMBH; Innovatis Immobilien GMBH; Innovatis Asset Management SA, Defendants-Appellants, and Michael Frank Burgess; Lexington Capital & Property Investments, LLC; Barry Funt, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 6, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin D. Evans ( Phillip L. Douglass with him on the briefs), of Steese, Evans & Frankel, P.C., Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellants.

Christopher W. Madel of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN ( Robert N. Miller and Stephanie E. Dunn of Perkins Coie LLP, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before TYMKOVICH, GORSUCH, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


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...

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