Legal Opinion
Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 23, 1983No. 81-920PublishedCited by 1,045 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, by authorizing a foreign plaintiff to sue a foreign state in a United States district court on a nonfederal cause of action, violates Article III of the Constitution.
I
On April 21, 1975, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and petitioner Verlinden B. V., a Dutch corporation with its principal offices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, entered into a contract providing for the purchase of 240,000 metric tons of cement by Nigeria. The parties agreed that the contract would be governed by the laws of the Netherlands…
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