In Re City of Conroe, Texas v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• maintaining that the “direct effect” doctrine has no “prerequisite that the United States be contractually designated as the place of performance”
• applying Weltover “supposed to” test but rejecting direct effect when contract did not specifically designate the United States as the place of performance
• analyzing whether the foreign state was entitled to immunity without discussing the presence or absence of a forum selection clause
• analyzing direct effects without employing or mentioning the “legally significant act” test
• “Neither New York nor any other United States location was designated as the ‘place of performance’ . . . .”
• Iraqi bank had no obligation to make payments in the United States on letters of credit 12 issued to Irish corporations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).