District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. September Term, 1864. The United States vs. The Schooner Etta

Plaintiff Zedan, an American citizen, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for breach of a contract guaranteeing wages and profits. While performance under the contract occurred in Saudi Arabia, plaintiff alleged that the jurisdictional requirements under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602-1611 (1982)) (FSIA) were satisfied by a recruitment call in California from a representative of the royal overseer of a private Saudi company. The district court granted the Saudi motion to dismiss. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (per Silberman, J.) unanimously affirmed and held: (1) that the telephone call did not have the requisite substantiality of contact with the United States; (2) that it was not sufficient to form the basis of a cause of action; and (3) that the alleged breach did not have sufficient direct effect in the United States to satisfy the exceptions to immunity under the FSIA.

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Innovative Research on the Relationship between Minimum Wage and Employment in the United States — A Case Study about the Fast Food Industry in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

2021 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA) ◽

10.1109/icccbda51879.2021.9442507 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Siyang Liu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New Jersey ◽

Minimum Wage ◽

Fast Food ◽

Food Industry ◽

The United States ◽

Fast Food Industry ◽

Innovative Research ◽

The Relationship

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A Lethal Pacifier

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.58.6.853 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 58 (6) ◽

pp. 853-855

Author(s):

Richard E. Kravath

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

New Jersey ◽

Airway Obstruction ◽

Similar Case ◽

The United States ◽

Brand Names ◽

Consumer Product Safety Commission ◽

Union City

A 5-month-old boy died of asphyxia from airway obstruction caused by his pacifier. It had been imported from Spain by La Cibeles Inc. of Union City, New Jersey, and had been marketed in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Florida, and Puerto Rico under the brand names Fauna, Flower, Navy, and Texas. It sold for about 50 cents. It is attractive in design, but has characteristics that make it dangerous. Following our report to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission,* the pacifier was recalled. We have been able to find only one similar case in the literature.1 The unnecessary tragedy was due to a preventable hazard and both individual and governmental action should avoid its recurrence.

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