Summary
rejecting American citizen's claim that his lost profits caused by foreign state's alleged breach of oil contract entered into by parties in Moscow specifying delivery of oil to Sicily with payment in Paris constituted direct effect under section 1605: "[a]ppellant would have us interpret § 1605 in a manner that would give the district courts jurisdiction over virtually any suit arising out of an overseas transaction in which an American citizen claims to have suffered a loss from the acts of a foreign state. We think that the language of § 1605 limiting jurisdiction to cases where there is a `direct effect' in the United States makes it unlikely that this was Congress' intent"
Summary of this case from Yang Rong v. Liaoning Province GovernmentOpinion
No. 94-916.
January 17, 1995, OCTOBER TERM, 1994.
C.A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 32 F. 3d 143.