Skidmore v. National Railroad Adjustment Board

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “there is no foreign civil war exception to the right to sue for tortious conduct that violates the fundamental norms of the cus- tomary laws of war”
• holding that “there is no foreign civil war exception to the right to sue for tortious conduct that violates the fundamental norms of the cus- tomary laws of war”
• holding in case involving the murder of an American by the Nicaraguan Contras that “the broad allegations . . . which comprise the entire military and political opposition in Nicaragua, are non- justiciable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).