| 24-909 |
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) |
commercial-activity federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-expropriation u.s.-nexus-test |
Whether a 'foreign state' lacks immunity from U.S. jurisdiction under the FSIA if either U.S.-nexus test is met or only if the first U.S.-nexus test i… |
| 24-759 |
Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements |
Whether in a breach of contract case under the FSIA's third clause, courts must apply traditional causation principles or require an additional findin… |
| 24-668 |
Republic of Argentina v. Attestor Master Value Fund LP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity federal-standard foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-execution state-law |
Whether courts should apply state or federal law to determine property location for foreign sovereign immunity under the FSIA, and whether property co… |
| 24A551 |
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act property-rights sovereign-immunity u-s-nexus |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires a foreign state to lose sovereign immunity when its instrumentality en… |
| 24-326 |
Ricardo Devengoechea v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
|
circuit-conflict commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver judgment-execution property-seizure |
Whether the standard for determining a foreign country's implied waiver of execution immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act is an objecti… |
| 22-886 |
Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover |
Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial-activity |
| 21-1108 |
Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale |
Whether a foreign state has engaged in commercial activity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| 21-995 |
Budha Jam, et al. v. International Finance Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-organization international-organizations jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity standing treaty-interpretation waiver-of-immunity |
Whether the commercial activity exception to immunity allows suit where the alleged acts of the defendant that give rise to its liability constitute c… |
| 21-448 |
France.com, Inc. v. The French Republic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-interpretation circuit-court claim-analysis commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception distinct-claims foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen legal-misapplication lower-federal-courts obb-personenverkeher-v-sachs |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and other lower federal courts have misapplied this Court's decision in OBB Personen… |
| 21-216 |
Roger Brown v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-activity contract-impairment due-process eleventh-amendment governmental-function pro-se-rights state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity thacker-v-tva |
Does Thacker v TVA apply to a determining Eleventh Amendment immunity for a State's 'Arm-of-the-State' corporate entity when conducting commercial act… |
| 20-1454 |
Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception |
Does the Second Circuit's opinion conflict with the D.C. Circuit and this Court's FSIA jurisprudence? |
| 20-640 |
The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion |
Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi… |
| 19-1101 |
Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in treating Canada's legislative decision to compensate its consular employees for workplace injuries exclusively u… |
| 19-520 |
Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (3) |
commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights |
Is the Federal Republic of Germany subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for claims to pro… |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 18-681 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. Consulate of Nigeria |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1603 28-usc-1605 commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception diplomatic-immunity foreign-service fsia fsia-28-usc-1603 fsia-28-usc-1605(a)(2) missing-passports passport-issuance proper-service-28-usc-1608 service-of-process sovereign-immunity |
Whether the practice of Respondent, CONSULATE OF NIGERIA, NY, that requires consulate officials to leave the New York Consulate office to advertise an… |
| 18-581 |
Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to … |
| 18-575 |
YPF S.A. v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge legal-exception sovereign-immunity |
Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to su… |
| 18-6412 |
Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop |
Can a police randomly stop and force you off the road to randomly inspect your private property without probable cause to impose a program on people t… |