Union Carbide Corp. v. Superior Court

How later courts describe this case

• holding that the Long-shore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act specifically relates to “business of insurance”
• holding that § 2283 must not be reduced to “an anachronistic, minor technicality, easily avoided by mere nomenclature or procedural sleight of hand”
• holding that the federal court will be bound by the decision only if the state court regax-ds the issue as final and beyond recall by the court issuing it
• holding that Marcos's illegal acts were not official acts pursuant to his authority as President of the Philippines, the court stated Marcos "was not the state, but the head of state, bound by the laws that applied to him”
• court maintained jurisdiction over RICO claim brought by Philippine government against deposed president for allegedly converting funds belonging to the Philippine people by investing in U.S. properties
• the doctrine did not apply in a suit against the deposed dictator of the Philippines by the present government because "[t]he doctrine is meant to facilitate the foreign relations of the United States, not to furnish the equivalent of sovereign immunity to a deposed leader."