International Association Of Machinists And Aerospace Workers v. Opec

How courts have described this case

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• holding that presence of a “commercial component” does not create an exception
• recognizing that the lack of international consensus condemning production agreements, that availability of oil is a significant factor in international relations, and that the growing world energy crisis has been judicially recognized in other cases
• the lack of international consensus on the propriety of cartels and production agreements weighed in favor of invoking the act of state doctrine to abstain in an antitrust suit challenging the price and production quotas of OPEC
• “[T]he granting of any relief would in effect amount to an order from a domestic court instructing a foreign sovereign to alter its chosen means of allocating and profiting from its own valuable natural resources.”
• alleged oil price-fixing by cartel of foreign nations
• \[T]he United States must speak with one voice....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).