KALAMAZOO SPICE EXTRACTION v. PROVISIONAL MIL. GOV.

No. 82-1521.

729 F.2d 422 (1984)

KALAMAZOO SPICE EXTRACTION CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The PROVISIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF SOCIALIST ETHIOPIA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Parachini, Brown, Colman & DeMent, Kalamazoo, Mich., John J. McGrath, Jr., David R. Garcia, John P. Dean, Mark B. Feldman (argued), Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jack Weinberg (argued), Charles L. Rosenzweig, Graubard, Moskovitz, McGoldrick, Dannett & Horwotz, New York City, Bert Burgoyne, Bromberg, Robinson, Shapero, Cohn & Burgoyne, Southfield, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Morris Harrell, American Bar Ass'n, Chicago, Ill., David Gantz, Oppenheimer & Wolff, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Bar Ass'n.

Michael F. Hertz (argued), Howard S. Scher, Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae United States.

Before ENGEL and KEITH, Circuit Judges; and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge.


KEITH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a district court judgment, 543 F.Supp. 1224, which dismissed appellant's counterclaim. The district court held that the act of state doctrine as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 84 S.Ct. 923, 11 L.Ed.2d 804 (1964), precluded judicial inquiry into the validity of an expropriation by the Ethiopian...

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