Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T05:25:46.058Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Act of state—jurisprudential basis of doctrine—inquiry into motivation for foreign official act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
International Decisions
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

Mark P. Kindall of the District of Columbia Bar assisted the Editor in the preparation of the summaries in this issue.

References

* Mark P. Kindall of the District of Columbia Bar assisted the Editor in the preparation of the summaries in this issue.

1 Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae at 3, Environmental Tectonics (citing amicus briefs filed by the United States in Mitsui & Co. v. Industrial Inv. Dev. Corp., cert, denied, 445 U.S. 903 (1980), and Hunt v. Mobil Oil Corp., cert, denied, 434 U.S. 984 (1977)).

2 Letter of the Legal Adviser to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Appendix to the Petition for Certiorari, at A34–37. 3 Environmental Tectonics v. W. S. Kirkpatrick & Co., 847 F.2d 1052 (3d Cir. 1988).

4 Id. at 1062.

5 Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae at 37 [hereinafter U.S. Brief].

6 Id. (emphasis in original).

7 Letter from the Legal Adviser to the Solicitor General, July 25, 1989, U.S. Brief, supra note 5, Appendix at 2a.

8 Id. (citing the Third Circuit’s opinion, 847 F.2d at 1062 n.11).

9 246 U.S. 297 (1918).

10 376 U.S. 398 (1964).

11 425 U.S. 682, 695 (1976) (opinion of White, J.).

12 406 U.S. 759, 760 (1972) (opinion of Rehnquist, J.).

13 110 S. Ct. 701, 705 (citing Ricaud v. American Metal Co., 246 U.S. 304 (1918)).

14 Id. at 704.

15 The Solicitor General did not support the position of the defendant that such embarrassment or interference would arise in this case.

16 110 S. Ct. at 707.

17 Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Bar Association at 4.

18 58 U.S.L.W. 3387 (U.S. Dec. 12, 1989) (No. 89–867), requesting certiorari in 882 F.2d 281 (7th Cir. 1989) and Order of Feb. 20, 1990, 58 U.S.L.W. 3526 (U.S. Feb. 20, 1990) (claim by former Iranian shareholders of an expropriated—without compensation—Iranian firm against U.S. engineering company for services rendered by the firm and collected by the U.S. company in the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal). (The author’s firm is counsel for the petitioner in this case.)

19 E.g., International Ass’n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 649 F.2d 1354 (9th Cir. 1981), cert, denied, 454 U.S. 1163 (1982) (act of state doctrine applied on basis of broad foreign policy concerns).