1. The International Court Of Justice
... Nicaragua v. United States. Nicaragua came before the ICJ claiming that the United States had been funding para-militants activities in Nicaragua, including the mining of Nicaraguan harbors (Guide). Nicaragua estimated the cost of the damages to exceed 17 billion dollars (Wilde, 1124). But the United States claimed that the ICJ had no jurisdiction, which left the court powerless (Shivley, 383). When the issue was brought to the UN Security Council, it was vetoed ... by the US. When Nicaragua dropped the charges, some say that is what the court wanted, because the longer Nicaragua pled ....
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