Hilao

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

In re: ESTATE OF FERDINAND E. 

MARCOS HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION,

CELSA HILAO,

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 06-16301 v.  D.C. No.

MDL-00840-MLR

ESTATE OF FERDINAND MARCOS,

Defendant-Appellee, OPINION

REVELSTOKE INVESTMENT

CORPORATION, INC.

Applicant for Intervention and Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 17, 2008—Honolulu, Hawaii

Filed July 31, 2008

Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Rymer

9753 9756 IN RE: ESTATE OF MARCOS

COUNSEL

Eugene D. Gulland (argued) and Richard A. Jones, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for the proposed- intervenors-appellants.

Jon Van Dyke, Honolulu, Hawaii, (argued); Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the appellee.

IN RE: ESTATE OF MARCOS 9757

OPINION

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider a novel situation involv- ing the registration of a…