Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “expropriation, claims processing, and government restitution schemes are not the province of private citizens”
• “We apply the doctrine only when we are required to declare invalid, and 24 thus ineffective, the official act of a foreign sovereign.” (cleaned up)
• “[e]xpropriation of private property is a uniquely sovereign act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).