Exchange Bondholder Group v. NML Capital, Ltd.
Petition for certiorari denied on June 16, 2014.
Issue
(1) Whether, where a foreign nation has refused to make payments to holders of its defaulted debt instruments, a federal court can coerce payment by issuing an injunction preventing a non-party trustee from paying non-party holders of the sovereign"s non-defaulted debt instruments unless the sovereign also satisfies in full the claims of the defaulted debt holders, thereby imposing otherwise non-existent conditions on the payment rights of the non-parties and creating a grave risk of default; (2) whether the Fifth Amendment"s prohibitions against government deprivations and takings of private property solely for the purpose of conferring a private benefit bar a federal court from granting equitable relief that conditions the payment rights of the non-party, non-defaulted debt holders on the sovereign"s payment of overdue sums to parties who are holders of the defaulted debt; and (3) whether non-party holders of debt instruments have standing to appeal the district court"s entry of an order that prohibits payments on those specific debt instruments " and no others " until the debtor has satisfied unrelated overdue payments on other debt instruments.
Recommended Citation: Exchange Bondholder Group v. NML Capital, Ltd., SCOTUSblog, https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/exchange-bondholder-group-v-nml-capital-ltd/