Committee of United States Citizens Living in Nicaragua v. Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States

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• holding that Congressional acts are not subject to challenge on the basis that they violate customary international law
• finding that treaty violations are subject to APA review if actionable by private citizens
• finding that treaty violations are subject to APA review if actionable by private citizens
• stating in dicta that “[a] treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• using Vienna Convention for guidance on the meaning of the term \ jus cogens \ and the extent to which the jus cogens may or may not impinge on a State's domestic law practice
• declining to 18 entertain private suit under United Nations charter absent Congressional authorization for legal claim under the treaty

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