Legal Opinion
Mol, Inc. v. The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 3, 1984No. 83-4094PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
MOL, Inc. sues Bangladesh for termination of a licensing agreement for the export of rhesus monkeys from Bangladesh. Because the granting and revocation of a license to export a natural resource are sovereign acts, we have no jurisdiction over this claim. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. § 1604.
FACTS
In 1977, a division of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture granted MOL, Inc., an Oregon corporation, a ten-year license to capture and export rhesus monkeys. The licensing agreement specified quantities and prices and required MOL to build in…
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