Publication Date: 2019-05-02
Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights | Dispute Resolution | Native American Law
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Peter Hall
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees: Kathleen M. Donovan-Maher, Steven J. Buttacavoli, Anne F. O'Berry, Steven L. Groopman, Berman DeValerio, Boston, MA, on the brief, Matthew B. Byrne, Gravel & Shea PC, Burlington, VT.
for defendant: As amicus curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Jeffrey R. White, Julie Braman Kane, American Association for Justice, Washington, DC.
As amicus curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Scott L. Nelson, Allison M. Zieve, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Public Citizen, Inc., Washington, DC.
For Defendants-Appellants Joel Rosette, Ted Whitford, and Tim McInerney: Morgan L. Goodspeed, Neal Kumar Katyal, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC; Richard J. Zack, Matthew B. Homberger, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief, Colleen Sinzdak, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC.
For Defendants-Appellants Think Finance, Inc., TC Decision Sciences, LLC, Tailwind Marketing, LLC, TC Loan Service, LLC, Technology Crossover Ventures, Kenneth E. Rees, and Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC: Kymberly Kochis, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, New York, NY; Ritchie E. Berger, Dinse Knapp McAndrew, Burlington, VT; Stephen D. Hibbard, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA; Todd R. Geremia, Jones Day, New York, NY; Stephen D. Ellis, Ellis Boxer & Blake PLLC, Springfield, VT; Richard L. Scheff, David F. Herman, Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Thomas Hefferon, Sabrina Rose-Smith, Matthew Sheldon, Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief, Lewis S. Wiener, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, DC.
Case Number: 16-2019-cv
Tribal Sovereign Immunity Does Not Bar Suit Under Theory Analogous to 'Young'