ETHIOPIAN SPICE EXTRACTION v. KALAMAZOO SPICE, ETC.

Nos. K79-400 CA, K81-17 CA.

543 F.Supp. 1224 (1982)

ETHIOPIAN SPICE EXTRACTION SHARE COMPANY, Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant, v. KALAMAZOO SPICE EXTRACTION COMPANY, Kalsec, Inc., and Kalsec International, Inc., Defendants, and Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company, and Kalsec, Inc., Defendants and Counter-Plaintiffs. KALAMAZOO SPICE EXTRACTION COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. The PROVISIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF SOCIALIST ETHIOPIA, Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

July 6, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Weinberg, New York City, Bert Burgoyne, Southfield, Mich., for Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Co.

James R. Withrow, Jr., New York City, for Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co., Kalsec, Inc. and Kalsec Intern. Co., Eric V. Brown, Sr., Kalamazoo, Mich., of counsel.

Thomas Carey, Kalamazoo, Mich., for Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia.


OPINION

BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.

These two cases arise out of the expropriation by the Ethiopian government of an interest in an Ethiopian corporation engaged in the production of spices. The expropriation is the basis of the complaint in K81-17 (Case Two) and is one of the grounds for a counterclaim resisting payment in K79-400 (Case One). This Opinion addresses five motions which are ripe for decision in the two cases.

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