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

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided July 16, 1985No. 84-1270PublishedCited by 153 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This suit is one of several arising from the promulgation by Mexico of exchange control regulations on August 13,1982, and from the subsequent nationalization of privately-owned Mexican banks on September 1, 1982. The exchange control regulations mandated that all deposits in Mexican banks, however denominated, be repaid in Mexican pesos at specified rates of change. Because the dollar rate of exchange was well below the market rate, the regulations constituted a Montezuma’s revenge on American investors who had dollar deposits in Mexican banks. A number of these…

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