Republic of Hungary v. Simon

REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY et al. v. SIMON et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for

the district of columbia circuit

No. 18–1447. Argued December 7, 2020—Decided February 3, 2021 911 F. 3d 1172, vacated and remanded.

Gregory Silbert argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Konrad L. Cailteux.

Benjamin W. Snyder argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Acting Solicitor General Wall, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Sopan Joshi, Sharon Swingle, and Joshua K. Handell.

Sarah E. Harrington argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief were Erica Oleszczuk Evans, Paul G. Gaston, Charles S. Flax, Liesel J. Schopler, L. Marc Zell, and David H. Weinstein.*

*John B. Bellinger III, Sally L. Pei, and R. Reeves Anderson filed a brief for Société Nationale SNCF SA as amicus curiae urging reversal.

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists et al. by Arthur R. Traldi and Stephen R. Greenwald; for the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA, Inc., et al. by Samuel J. Dubbin; for Members of the United States House of Representatives by Akiva Shapiro; for the Raoul Wallen-berg Centre for Human Rights et al. by Beth Heifetz and Alex Potapov; for Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust by Robert James Pavich and Richard H. Weisberg; for the World Jewish Congress et al. by Thomas R. Kline and L. Eden Burgess; and for Mark B. Fieldman by Mark B. Field-man, pro se.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed for The 1939 Society et al. by Benjamin G. Shatz, Stanley A. Goldman, and Stanley W. Levy; for William S. Dodge et al. by Geoffrey M. Klineberg and Daniel S. Severson ; and for Samuel Estreicher et al. by Amelia L. B. Sargent.

Per Curiam.

The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit is vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the decision in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U. S. 169 (2021).

It is so ordered.

Reporter’s Note

The next page is purposely numbered 901. The numbers between 208 and 901 were intentionally omitted, in order to make it possible to publish the orders with permanent page numbers, thus making the official citations available upon publication of the preliminary prints of the United States Reports.