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iiclr-17799	Sullivan Jr., Frank	PART II: Deciding Cases with Foreign Relations Implications	2004	30	.pdf	application/pdf	14547	719	59	A second doctrine, the act of state doctrine, also has been invoked as a restraint on judicial scrutiny in foreign relations cases where the legality of action by a foreign country within its own borders is in question. In that case, an American businessman working in Venezuela sought compensation in U.S. courts for damages he and his business suffered when he became embroiled in a revolution there.282 Chief Justice Fuller rejected the claim with a formulation of the act of state doctrine used in almost every such case: Every sovereign State is bound to respect the independ- ence of every other sovereign State, and the courts of one 274.	cache/iiclr-17799.pdf	txt/iiclr-17799.txt