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MOL, INC. v. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

No. 83-4094.

736 F.2d 1326 (1984)

MOL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mildred J. Carmack, John R. Faust, Jr., P.C., Schwabe, Williamson, Wyatt, Moore & Roberts, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant.

Lauri Nicholson, Laurens H. Silver, San Francisco, Cal., for amicus Animal Rights.

Donald J. Lukes, Brophy & Lukes, Portland, Or., for defendant-appellee.

Before WRIGHT, HUG, and NELSON, Circuit Judges.

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

MOL, Inc. sues Bangladesh for termination of a licensing agreement for the export of rhesus monkeys from Bangladesh. Because the granting and revocation of a license to export a natural resource are sovereign acts, we have no jurisdiction over this claim. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. § 1604.

FACTS

In 1977, a division of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture granted MOL, Inc., an Oregon...

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