direct-effect

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A165 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
20-117 Jairo Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived contract-validity direct-effect direct-effect-doctrine explicit-waiver foreign-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver property-rights 1. Whether 1605(a)(1) of the FSIA waiver exception requires courts to determine jurisdiction based on whether or not a contract contains an explicit w…
18-716 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction Respondents invested in a Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in another Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in a Brazilian corporation, whi…