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Limited v. Antrix Corp. was no surprise to anyone. As my story on the oral argument in March explained, nobody was willing to ...
As long as plaintiffs can establish a legal exception to foreign sovereign immunity, they need not also show that a country ...
The US Supreme Court revived a more than $500 million arbitration award involving two Indian companies, saying that the lower ...
A breakdown of the Supreme Court's six decisions on Thursday, which included holdings on Title VII, the First Amendment and ...
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a $1.29 billion arbitral award enforcement suit filed by Mauritius-based ...
Next we turn to the seminal U.S. statute on foreign state immunity, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 ("FSIA"). Foreground: Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 The FSIA was the ...
The lawsuit is seeking to use a 2016 law to overcome Saudi Arabia's sovereign immunity claims against liability in the NAS ...
It's been four years since attorneys for the victims and families of the terror attack on NAS Pensacola filed a civil lawsuit ...
How might this work? Right now, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §1604 provides that “a foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United ...
that the companies weren't entitled to immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. That opinion focused on the fact that the accusations in the indictment alone did not establish that the ...
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a $1.29 billion arbitral award enforcement suit filed by Mauritius-based ...