Law: Soviet Cannot Sue

The highest court in New York—the Court of Appeals—has a second time passed upon the status of the Soviet government, officially known as the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. The latest decision is to the effect that the present government of Russia cannot sue in our courts; an earlier case, decided in January of this year, held that it could not be sued. Both rulings were made on the ground that the Bolshevik regime has not been recognized by the Department of Slate at Washington. If it had been recognized it could have...

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