expropriation-exception

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
23-867 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States under t…
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
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…
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings Whether the 'expropriation exception' of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims that a foreign sovereign has violated …
18-997 Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la…