The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 11, Problem 7BCP
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Case summary: The survivors of the Holocaust and the heirs of the Holocaust victims filed a case in the federal district court in the U.S. against various Hungarian entities alleging that they have expropriated property from the Hungarian Jews. The plaintiffs did not try to seek remedies from the Hungarian court nor they provided a legally compelling reason for not doing so. The defendants then asked the court to dismiss the court.
To find: in the case that the request of the defendant is supported by the principle of comity.
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