Bandes v. Harlow & Jones, Inc.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Within our nation’s borders, we have adhered to the principle that government may not deprive its citizens of property without due process of law and just compensation. Of course, this ideal, embodied in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution, constrains our federal and state governments, not those of other countries. But when a foreign sovereign, following hostilities, confiscates a defeated group’s property and attempts to extend that taking to interests held here, a United States court will effectuate the seizure for only the weightiest…