William F. Callejo, Individually and as Trustee, and Adelfa B. Callejo, as Trustee v. Bancomer, S.A.

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• explaining that to determine the basis of a claim, a court should focus on the “gravamen of the complaint”
• explaining that to determine the basis of a claim, a court should focus on the “gravamen of the complaint”
• holding, in regard to sovereign immunity, that “the breach of the certificates of deposits had direct effects in the United States” where plaintiffs resided, even though Mexico was specified as the place of payment “on the certificates themselves”
• invoking the doctrine in refusing to intervene in a dispute implicating the legitimacy of Mexico's promulgation of exchange control regulations
• dismissing case where relief sought by the plaintiff was barred by the act of state doctrine
• refusing to consider on appeal letters that were not presented to the district court

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