BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA v. SABBATINO

No. 16.

376 U.S. 398 (1964)

BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA v. SABBATINO, RECEIVER, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Rabinowitz argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Leonard B. Boudin.

C. Dickerman Williams argued the cause and filed briefs for respondent Farr, Whitlock & Co.

Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Cox, Morton Hollander, John C. Eldridge and Andreas F. Lowenfeld.

James A. Dixon filed a brief for the Pan-American Life Insurance Co., as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Whitney North Seymour argued the cause for Compania Azucarera Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Eastman Birkett, John A. Guzzetta and Thomas W. Cashel.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by Charles S. Rhyne, Churchill Rodgers, Max Chopnick, Benjamin Busch, Nicholas R. Doman and Leo M. Drachsler for the American Bar Association; by Pieter J. Kooiman, Myres S. McDougal and Cecil J. Olmstead for the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association; by Herbert Brownell, James M. Edwards and Jack P. Jefferies for the Committee on International Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and by John Lord O'Brian, John G. Laylin, Brice M. Clagett and Ky P. Ewing, Jr. for North American Sugar Industries, Inc., et al.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question which brought this case here, and is now found to be the dispositive issue, is whether the so-called act of state doctrine serves to sustain petitioner's claims in this litigation. Such claims are ultimately founded on a decree of the Government of Cuba expropriating certain property, the right to the proceeds of which is here in controversy. The act of state...

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