Millen Industries, Inc. v. Coordination Council for North American Affairs

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “an action is based upon the elements that prove the claim, no more and no less.”
• finding that “issuance of a license permitting the removal of uranium from Kazakhstan is a sovereign act”
• remanding because “[o]ne allegation of the complaint . . . may [have] be[en] sufficient to create jurisdiction” even as most were barred by FSIA
• “A useful inquiry ... is whether the essence or central elements of an agreement made by a foreign state might be made by a private person.”
• “Even if a transaction is partly commercial, jurisdiction will not obtain if the cause of action is based on a sovereign activity.”
• “Even if a transaction is partly commercial, jurisdiction will not obtain if the cause of action is based on a sovereign activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).