VERLINDEN B. V. v. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

No. 81-920.

461 U.S. 480 (1983)

VERLINDEN B. V. v. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abram Chayes argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Berthold H. Hoeniger and Mitchell M. Bailey.

Deputy Solicitor General Bator argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. On the brief were Solicitor General Lee, Assistant Attorney General McGrath, Kenneth S. Geller and Stephen M. Shapiro, Deputy Solicitors General, William Kanter, and Eloise Davies.

Stephen N. Shulman, by invitation of the Court, 459 U.S. 964, argued the cause as amicus curiae in support of the judgment below.*

A brief of amicus curiae urging affirmance was filed by Stephen N. Shulman and Mark C. Ellenberg for the Republic of Guinea.


CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to consider whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, by authorizing a foreign plaintiff to sue a foreign state in a United States district court on a nonfederal cause of action, violates Article III of the Constitution.

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On April 21, 1975, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and petitioner Verlinden B. V., a Dutch corporation with its principal offices in Amsterdam...

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