Josefina Najarro De Sanchez v. Banco Central De Nicaragua, a Foreign Banking Corporation

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1985-09-19

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GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge: Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff’s faction having lost on the battlefield, she now seeks to move the conflict to the courtroom, hoping that, in this case at least, the pen is mightier than the sword. In July 1979, the Nicaraguan government of General Anastas…

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