Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Colonna
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 5, 1942PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
Petitioner, the Royal Italian Ambassador, seeks leave to file in this Court a petition for writs of prohibition and mandamus, directed to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The basis of this application is petitioner’s allegation that a vessel and its cargo of oil, the subject of litigation in the District Court and now in its possession, are the property of the Italian Government and are entitled to the benefit of Italy’s sovereign immunity from suit.
After the motion was filed, there occurred on December 11, 1941, the declaration that the United States is at war…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hanger v. AbbottSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
- Rothbarth v. HerzfeldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Caperton v. BowyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Masterson v. HowardSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
3Cited by50 opinions
- Banco Nacional De Cuba v. SabbatinoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Johnson v. EisentragerSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Ex Parte Republic of PeruSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Osbourne v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
- Pang-Tsu Mow v. Republic of China (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
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