INTERNATIONAL LAW--EXCLUSIVE FEDERAL JURISDICTION OVER SUITS AGAINST FOREIGN CONSULS AND VICE-CONSULS--ACTIONS FOR DIVORCE

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Abstract

There has been until recently no question as to which system of courts, state or federal, had jurisdiction over suits against foreign consuls or vice consuls resident in this country. That that jurisdiction belonged exclusively to the federal courts was taken for granted. But the decision rendered January 20, 1930 in the case of The State of Ohio ex rel Popovici v. Alger et al, Judges, casts some doubt upon and qualifies the supposed exclusiveness of this jurisdiction. In this case the United States Supreme Court affirmed the jurisdiction of a state court over a divorce suit against a foreign vice-consul.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW--EXCLUSIVE FEDERAL JURISDICTION OVER SUITS AGAINST FOREIGN CONSULS AND VICE-CONSULS--ACTIONS FOR DIVORCE, 28 Mich. L. Rev. 591 (1930).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol28/iss5/6