Upton v. Empire of Iran

How courts have described this case

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

• subsection (a)(4) of Uniform Act held inapplicable where “indirect nature of injuries which, although endured [in the forum] were caused in” a foreign country
• “The commonsense interpretation of a ‘direct effect’ is one which has no intervening element, but, rather, flows in a straight line without deviation or interruption.”
• death resulting from collapse of airport roof
• injury from a roof collapse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).