Jafari v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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

• “It may be foreign to our way of life and thought, but the fact is that governmental expropriation is not so universally abhorred that its prohibition commands the ‘general assent of civilized nations’ — a prerequisite to incorporation in the ‘law of nations.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).