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Note: To provide for housing for extra security personnel at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) selected Cruise Connections Charter Management 1, LP (Charterer) to arrange to berth two cruise ships in Vancouver harbor for CAN 54 million. After making arrangements, the personnel at RCMP who had negotiated with Charterer reversed previously stated positions and reinstated a requirement that had been omitted from the final version of the contract, namely that Charterer provide a 90% standby LC. When Charterer refused, RCMP terminated the contract.

Charterer sued the Canadian Attorney General, the RCMP, and the Queen in the federal courts in Washington DC for breach of contract and deceptive trade practices under North Carolina law. Concluding that there was no direct effect in the US caused by the alleged actions as required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Robertson, J., granted Defendants' motions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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