Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Republic of Peru
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 5, 1943No. 13, OriginalPublishedCited by 358 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stone
This is a motion for leave to file in this Court the petition of the Republic of Peru for a writ of prohibition or of mandamus. The petition aslcs this Court to prohibit respondent, a judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and the other judges and officers of that court, from further exercise of jurisdiction over a proceeding in rem, pending in that court against petitioner’s steamship Ucayali, and to direct the district judge to enter an order in the proceeding declaring the vessel immune from suit. The questions for decision here are whether this Court has…
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