Holzer v. Gesellschaft

This challenge by the plaintiff to the legal sufficiency of the separate defenses poses, inter alia, the vastly arresting and significant question concerning the recognition and respect by our courts of the confessed discrimination against the Jews practiced by the German government.

Though that policy be repugnant to our concept of elementary justice, does the law of comity compel us to honor it, or may we inquire into the morality of the policy, and, finding it immoral, refuse to accord it faith and credit? May the light of our public policy be shed on the law of a foreign jurisdiction, or…