Nelson Bunker Hunt v. Mobil Oil Corporation

MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises the question whether the district court properly dismissed before trial, on the basis of the act of state doctrine, the third antitrust claim of the plaintiffs-appellants’ complaint seeking treble *70damages from the named defendants-appel-lees as the result of the nationalization of the plaintiffs’ oil producing properties in the Sarir Field by the Libyan government on June 11, 1973. We hold that the motion to dismiss was correctly decided and affirm the judgment of the district court.

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Nelson Bunker Hunt filed a complaint on March 3, 1975 in the United…