Legal Opinion
Secretary of State for Defence v. Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 10, 2007No. 06-1062PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Gregory wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Widener joined. Judge Traxler wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
GREGORY, Circuit Judge:
The question before the Court is whether a foreign government is a third-party beneficiary of a contract for military goods between the United States and a domestic military contractor, where the foreign government agreed to purchase those goods from the United States under the Foreign Military Sales program. Because affording the foreign purchaser such extraordinary third-party beneficiary rights is contrary to the…
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