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Abstract
Recent Decisions
Jurisdiction and Procedure - Forum non Conveniens--The Foreign Plaintiff is Entitled to Less Deference in His Choice of Forum than is a Citizen or Resident Plaintiff; A Change of Law Resulting from Dismissal is Not a Substantial Factor in the Forum non Conveniens Analysis.
Robert Charles Goodrich, Jr.
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ALIENS--Exclusion of Aliens from State Probation Officer Position is not Unconstitutional because it Falls Within the Political Function Exception
Christopher Qualley King
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SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY--Ship Owning Corporation's Contacts with United States are Sufficient to Extend Jurisdiction over Action for Damages involving Maritime Collision: Financial Effect on a United States Corporation is Sufficiently Direct Effect on United States for Purposes of the Commercial Activities Exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Dee Ann Weldon-Wilson
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SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY--Failure to Assert Affirmative Defense of Sovereign Immunity in a Motion to Dismiss Doesn't Waive Immunity by Implication Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976
Jay D. Grushkin
Recommended Citation
Robert C. Goodrich, Jr.; Christopher Q. King; and Jay D. Grushkin,
Recent Decisions,
15 Vanderbilt Law Review
583
(1982)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol15/iss3/3