DIEFENBACH ET UX.

v.

WASHINGTON

Citator

Cited By (15 total)

• Hawkins Sandblasting, Inc. v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., 668 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)
  …e v. Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc., 407 F.Supp. 761, 762 n. 1 (N.D.Ill.1976), with Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. v. McMoRAN Offshore Exploration Co., 877 F. 2d 1214 (5th Cir.), cert. denied sub nom. Marathon Oil Co. v. McMoRAN Offshore Exploration Co., 493 U.S. 937, 110 S.Ct. 332, 107 L.Ed.2d 321 (1989); Lirette v. Popich Brothers Water Transport, Inc., 699 F. 2d 725 (5th Cir.1983); Todd Shipyards Corp. v. Turbine Service, Inc., 674 F. 2d 401 (5th Cir.1982), cert. denied sub nom. Sentry Insurance v. Todd Shipy…
• Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc., 504 U.S. 607 (U.S. 1992)
  …the type of actions by which a private party engages in “trade and traffic or commerce,” Black’s Law Dictionary 270 (6th ed. 1990). See, e. g., Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center v. Hellenic Republic, 877 F. 2d 574, 578 (CA7), cert. denied, 493 U. S. 937 (1989). Thus, a foreign government’s issuance of regulations limiting foreign currency exchange is a sovereign activity, because such authoritative control of commerce cannot be exercised by a private party; whereas a contract to buy army boots or…
• Weltover, Inc. v. Republic OF Argentina, 941 F.2d 145 (2d Cir. 1991)
  …ublic, 877 F. 2d 574, 578 (7th Cir.) (“If a private person could have engaged in the same type of activity, then the sovereign has presumptively engaged in ‘commercial activity’ within the meaning of the FSIA_”) (emphasis in original), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 937, 110 S.Ct. 333, 107 L.Ed.2d 322 (1989); Practical Concepts, Inc. v. Republic of Bolivia, 811 F. 2d 1543, 1549-50 (D.C.Cir.1987). It should be noted, however, that the Seventh Circuit appears to have read too much into our holding in Letelier v. Rep…