expropriation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1075 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-04-03 Denied Relisted (2) domestic-takings-exception expropriation foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity holocaust-expropriation international-law international-law-taking property-rights stateless-persons treaty-of-trianon 1. Did Hungary and MÁV violate the international law of expropriation by their seizure of stateless persons' property? 2. Was Hungary's violation of …
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 ("Germany"), a foreign state, subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Im…
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…