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… |