Whether a District Court deciding a motion for default judgment may find service upon a foreign State pursuant to Article 15 of the Hague Service Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a District Court deciding a motion for default judgment may find service upon a foreign State pursuant to Article 15 of the Hague Service Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act where the plaintiff actually delivered service papers to the State’s Central Authority, its Foreign Ministry, and the Central Authority refused to deliver the papers to the Venezuelan Attorney General, a State organ to which the Venezuelan Central Authority should have delivered papers under Venezuela’s internal law.