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Ninth Circuit Allows Some Claims Alleging Vatican Bank Complicity with World War II Ustasha Regime to Proceed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 Alperin v. Vatican Bank, 242 F.Supp.2d 686 (N.D. Cal. 2003).

2 Alperin v. Vatican Bank, No. 03-15208 (9th Cir. Apr. 18, 2005), at <http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov>.

3 Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962).

4 Alperin v. Vatican Bank, No. 03-15208, slip op. at 4283–89 (citations, footnote, heading, and some paragraph breaks omitted).

5 Id. at 4292 (citation omitted).

6 The four others were: the need for a nonjudicial initial policy determination; the risk of judicial resolution entailing lack of respect for other branches of government; the need for adherence to prior political decisions; and the risk of embarrassment from inconsistent positions by different branches of government. See Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. at 217 (1962).

7 Alperin v. Vatican Bank, No. 03-15208, slip op. at 4319.