Court Opinion

ID: 9636849
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:45:25.089462+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:50.181762
License: Public Domain

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
This Court is not alone in finding difficulty in picking its way through the hard problems of political and legal consequences of recognition or nonrecognition, as the authorities cited above show. When our government recognizes the government of a foreign country that recognition can be in such terms and conditions as are mutually agreed upon. These terms and conditions are binding because, representing action by the federal government in its constitutional field, they are the supreme law of the land. I find difficulty in seeing a parallel in the case of nonrecognition which seems to me simply absence of recognition. But in the absence of recognition of the foreign government, it seems not improper, in a litigated matter, to deny, effect to an act of that government which purports to change the ownership of a chattel many hundreds of miles away from its borders. Therefore, I think the result reached is the correct one.