Covenant Mut. Ben. Ass'n of Illinois v. Peters

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• explaining that “the exercise of discretion whether or not to respect a foreign act of state affecting property in the United States is closely tied to our foreign affairs, with consequent need for nationwide uniformity” (emphasis added)
• declining to apply the act of state doctrine where the legal situs of the intangible property at issue, debt and stock, was Canada and not Iraq

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).