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Remarks by the Chairman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Mark B. Feldman
Mark B. Feldman*
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Of the District of Columbia Bar, U.S. Department of State
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Adjudication of Foreign Expropriations in U.S. Courts
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 77 , 1983 , pp. 335 - 340
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1983

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References

1 See, e.g., Empresa Cubana Exportadora, Inc. v. Lamborn & Company, 652 F.2d 231 (2d Cir. 1981); Hunt v. Coastal States Gas Producing Company, 583 S.W.2d 322 (Tex. 1979), cert, denied, 444 U.S. 992 (1980); See also Hunt v. Mobil Oil Corporation, 550 F.2d 68 (2d Cir.), cert, denied, 434 U.S. 984 (1977).

2 International Association of Machinists v. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 649 F.2d 1354, cert, denied, 454 U.S. 1163 (1982).

3 In re Sedco, 543 F. Supp. 561 (S.D. Tex. 1982).

4 Libyan American Oil Company v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 482 F. Supp. 1175 (D.D.C. 1980) vacated, 684 F.2d 1032 (D.C. Cir. 1981).

5 543 F. Supp. 1224 (W.D. Mich. 1982).

6 Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398 (1964).

7 Declaration of Economic Policy (based on Ethiopian Socialism), Provisional Military Administrative Council, February 3, 1975.

8 22 U.S.C. § 2370(e)(1).

9 See Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company v. The Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, 543 F. Supp. 1224 (W.D. Mich. 1982).

10 376 U.S. at 428: [T]he Judicial Branch will not examine the validity of the taking of property within its own territory by a foreign sovereign government, extant and recognized by this country at the time of suit, in the absence of a treaty or other unambiguous agreement regarding controlling legal principles, even if the complaint alleges that the taking violates customary international law.

11 22 U.S.C. § 2370(e)(2).

12 Banco Para El Commercio Exterior de Cuba v. First National City Bank, 658 F.2d 913 (2d Cir.1981), cert, granted 103 S.Ct. 253 (1982) [hereinafter cited as Bancec].

13 Empresa Cubana Exportadora, Inc. v. Lamborn & Co., Inc., 652 F.2d 231 (2d Cir. 1981).

14 Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 658 F.2d 875 (2d Cir. 1981).

15 See, e.g., United Bank v. Cosmic International, Inc., 542 F.2d 868 (2d Cir. 1976); Maltina Corporation v. Cawy Bottling Company, 462 F.2d 1021 (5th Cir. 1972) cert, denied, 409 U.S. 1060.

16 Vishipco Line v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., 660 F.2d 854 (2d Cir. 1981), cert, denied, 103 S. Ct. 813 (1982); Menendez v. Saks & Co., 485 F.2d 1355 (2d Cir. 1973), rev'd on other grounds, sub nam. Alfred Dunhill of London v. Republic of Cuba, 425 U.S. 682 (1976); Tabacalera Severiano Jorge, S.A. v. Standard Cigar Company, 392 F.2d 706 (5th Cir. 1968), cert, denied 393 U.S. 924, Republic of Iraq v. First National City Bank, 353 F.2d 47 (2d Cir. 1965) cert denied, 382 U.S. 1027 (1966).

17 See, Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Farr, 383 F.2d 166 (2 Cir. 1967), cert, denied, 390 U.S. 956 (1968).

18 Alfred Dunhill of London v. Republic of Cuba, supra n.16.

19 See, e.g., United Bank Limited v. Cosmic International, Inc. 542 F.2d 868 (2d Cir. 1976); Maltina v. Cawy Bottling Co., 462 F.2d 1021 (5th Cir. 1972), cert, denied, 409 U.S. 1060; Compania Ron Bacardi, S.A. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, 193 F. Supp. 814 (S.D. N.Y. 1961); Zwack v. Kraus Bros. & Co., 237 F.2d 255 (2d Cir. 1956).