Legal Opinion
Loftin & Woodard, Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1978No. 76-1839PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:
In these conversion actions, consolidated on appeal, the federal court is asked for a decision we consider impossible. The immediate question is whether the district court erred in granting appellee’s motion for summary judgment. The district court determined that it should refrain from deciding the issue on the merits, the rights to oil extracted from the Persian Gulf, because the decision would call into question the acts of foreign states. We dismiss on the slightly different ground that the question presented is political, being both constitutionally…
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