blocked-assets

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-512 Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-15 Denied Response Waived asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act Whether the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act waives the United States' federal sovereign immunity over assets that have been seized or frozen by the Unite…
19-807 Bank Melli v. Michael Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied agency-instrumentality asset-execution blocked-assets default-judgment foreign-sovereign-immunity juridical-separation separate-entity state-owned-entity terrorism-risk-insurance-act treaty-obligations Whether TRIA requires that the respondent actually own the assets at issue, or whether the statute permits execution even absent ownership