enemy taint
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 343 U.S. 156 - Kaufman v. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. · 1952Most cited · 168 citing opinions
Enemy taint can be found if there are enemy officers or stockholders; even the presence of some nonenemy stockholders does not prevent seizure of all the corporate assets.
How often courts cite the cases defining “enemy taint”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “enemy taint” — 247 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1952–1952
- ORIGINAL
The crucial fact is not the actual use by an enemy-tainted corporation of its power in economic warfare against the United States. It is the existence of that power that is controlling and against which the Government of the United States may move.
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