United States v. Sabin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding there was no jurisdiction when effects in the United States were “dependent on an intervening factor”
• employing legally significant act test to find no direct effect when the contract designated performance exclusively in Europe, though payment was in U.S. dollars
• finding no direct effect when a foreign nation’s cancellation of an otherwise non-U.S. contract meant that foreign currency no longer needed to be transferred to a U.S. bank to be converted into dollars
• finding no direct effect when a foreign nation’s cancellation of an otherwise non-U.S. contract meant that foreign currency no longer needed to be transferred to a U.S. bank to be converted into dollars
• finding no direct effect when a foreign nation’s cancellation of an otherwise non-U.S. contract meant that foreign currency no longer needed to be transferred to a U.S. bank to be converted into dollars
• “Congress did not intend to provide 13 jurisdiction whenever the ripples caused by an overseas transaction manage 14 eventually to reach the shores of the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).