Court Opinion

ID: 9472245
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:54:12.796438+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:49.750706
License: Public Domain

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in Judge Scalia’s opinion for the panel, with one caveat. I want to make it clear that I read the holding of the opinion as limited by and responsive to the precise — and highly unique — case before us. In particular, I do not read the opinion to hold that, in a contemporary setting, the United States can unlawfully expropriate property legitimately owned by aliens in this country, consummate a treaty with a foreign sovereign extinguishing the aliens’ property rights without compensation or consideration, and then totally avoid responsibility under our Constitution or other applicable laws of this Nation. We have no occasion to consider such a situation here and we express no view on its legality,