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Abstract
On January 19, 1981, the United States signed. an agreement with Iran that achieved the release of fifty-two American hostages held captive in Iran for over a year. In exchange for the safe return of the hostages, the United States returned Iranian property that had been seized in this country pursuant to a presidential order. The agreement, ending what one court termed a "sorry chapter [in] the history of our country,"' required a controversial intrusion by the executive into federal court litigation. The Supreme Court sought to lay the controversy to rest in Dames & Moore v. Regan.
Recommended Citation
Roman Pipko & Jonathan S. Sack,
Rediscovering Executive Authority: Claims Settlement and Foreign Sovereign Immunity,
10
Yale J. Int'l L.
(1985).
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