Legal Opinion
Josefina Najarro De Sanchez v. Banco Central De Nicaragua, a Foreign Banking Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 19, 1985No. 84-3247PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff’s faction having lost on the battlefield, she now seeks to move the conflict to the courtroom, hoping that, in this case at least, the pen is mightier than the sword.
In July 1979, the Nicaraguan government of General Anastasio Somoza fell to the Sandinista revolutionaries. As usually occurs, members of the old regime fled the country to escape the reach of “revolutionary justice.” But where defeated aristoc*1387racies…
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