Beenes v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the ATS provided jurisdiction over a suit by the owners of a British ship against the French privateer who hijacked it
• owners of British ship sought damages for its seizure in U.S. waters by a French privateer; ATS does not apply because suit was not “for a tort only”
• seizure of a brig and cargo by French privateers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).