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Twa Vs. FranklIn Mint Corp.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 17, 1984

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  12. TWA v. Franklin
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  13. Mint Corp. - 466 U.S. 243 (1984) U.S. Supreme Court TWA v. Franklin
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  14. Mint Corp., 466 U.S. 243 (1984) Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Franklin
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  15. Cook v. United
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  16. States, 288 U. S. 102 , 288 U. S. 120 (1933). See also Washington v. Washington
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  17. Menominee Tribe of Indians v. United
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  18. Pigeon River Improvement, Slide & Boom Co. v. Charles
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  19. U. S. 138 , 291 U. S. 160 (1934). Legislative silence is not sufficient to abrogate a treaty. Weinberger v. Rossi
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  20. should accordingly not be read as an implicit abrogation of any part of it. See generally Bacardi Corp. of America v. Domenech
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  21. adopted by the United States and other signatories in the first 40 years of the Convention's existence. See Factor v. Laubenheimer
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  22. Day v. Trans
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  23. The Convention was intended to reduce, not to increase, the economic uncertainties of air transportation. v. The
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  24. Together with No. 82-1465, Franklin Mint Corp. et al. v. Trans
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  25. the courts have taken the initiative in adopting the SDR as the new unit of conversion. See, e.g., Kislinger v. Austrian
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  26. Albine Breitinger GmbH v. Austrian
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  27. for Petitioner TWA at BA22). At least one court has relied instead on the last official price of gold. See Costell v. Iberia
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  28. has rewritten it. I A treaty is essentially a contract between or among sovereign nations. See Washington v. Washington
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  29. U. S. 675 (1979). General rules of construction apply to international agreements. See Ware v. Hylton
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  30. Factor v. Laubenheimer
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  31. interpretation of treaties. The Pizarro, 2 Wheat. 227, 15 U. S. 246 (1817). See also Santovincenzo v. Egan
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  32. Page 466 U. S. 263 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. New
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  33. anathema to the raison d'etre of treaties, and hence to the rules of construction applicable to them. Geofroy v. Riggs
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  34. Tucker v. Alexandroff
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  35. and measuring payment with the intention of guarding against fluctuations in the value of a domestic currency. Feist v. Societe
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  36. was intended was to assure the payment of a money debt in dollars of a value as constant as that of gold. Norman v. Baltimore
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  37. Feist v. Societe
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  38. Holyoke Water Power Co. v. American
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  39. See also The Legal Tender Cases, 12 Wall. 457 (1871) (overruling Hepburn v. Griswold
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  40. Hepburn v. Griswold
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  41. payment of value in money, measured by a stated number of gold dollars of the standard defined in the clause. Feist v. Societe
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  42. Perry v. United
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  43. Norman v. Baltimore
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  44. Nortz v. United
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  45. Guaranty Trust Co. v. Henwood
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  46. fact that the price of gold was set by law -- a fact that no longer obtains. See Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostic, Inc. v. Pan
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  47. adjusting that relationship, it necessarily affects legal interests in many contractual areas. See, e.g., Norman v. Baltimore
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  48. air carriers were bound by the Convention, and bound by Congress' decisions on monetary policy, see, e.g., Norman v. Baltimore
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court TWA v. Franklin
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  50. Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Franklin
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