The OPEC countries will give the same deference to a US Court decision as the US should give to a World Court decision.
Besides, what can the US Court do outside of US soil? The assets aren’t available seizure, short of open warfare, which isn’t the province of the courts.
“Besides, what can the US Court do outside of US soil? The assets aren’t available seizure, short of open warfare, which isn’t the province of the courts.”
Well, that’s not quite true. Any assets of a nation located here, or even moving through here in the financial system, could in theory be seized as the result of a valid court order/judgment. The practical effect would be to deny access to the American financial system. If we were really serious we could do to OPEC what we have previously done to No Korea and are beginning to do to Iran. In the recent past, however, the State Department has done everything in its power to prevent seizure of the assets of foreign sovereign nations, even of those like Iran with whom we have no relations, American court orders to the contrary notwithstanding. The Clinton bunch was active in this area but the Bush crowd virtually never fails to side with foreign sovereigns against American citizens in litigation.
Now of course OPEC could refuse to sell us their oil, but then there’d be a glut elsewhere if current spin is correct.