Legal Opinion
Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. v. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided August 26, 1985No. K81-17 CAPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.
This is one of two lawsuits pending in this Court which arose out of the expropriation of a majority of the stock of the Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Company (ESESCO) by the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (the PMGSE). Earlier in this litigation, the PMGSE filed a motion to dismiss, challenging this Court’s jurisdiction on several grounds. In an Opinion filed July 6, 1982, and reported at 543 F.Supp. 1224 (W.D. Mich.1982), this Court concluded that jurisdiction over plaintiff's claims was precluded by the Act of State…
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