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GALU v. SWISSAIR: SWISS AIR TRANSPORT CO., LTD.

No. 345, Docket 88-7591.

873 F.2d 650 (1989)

Deborah Ann GALU, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SWISSAIR: SWISS AIR TRANSPORT CO., LTD., a/k/a Swiss Air Transport Co., Ltd., a/k/a Swissair, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Ann Galu, pro se, Ferney-Voltaire, France, for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael J. Holland, New York City (Condon & Forsyth, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, NEWMAN, and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the invocation of the act of state doctrine in a somewhat unusual context. The specific issue is whether the doctrine insulates from examination by a United States court the actions of an international airline that acted in cooperation with police officials of a foreign country forcibly to transport to the United States a person whom the foreign country had ordered expelled, an order alleged to afford the person a...

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