| 25A334 |
Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 24-699 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-31 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) |
cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception |
Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A… |
| 24-341 |
Juan Carlos Emden, et al. v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
act-of-state-doctrine federal-civil-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunity judicial-inference nazi-art-restitution rule-12(b)(6) |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with well-established precedent that adjudicating the effects of a f… |
| 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 … |
| 23-568 |
Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Muhammad Baasiri, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1603 circuit-split complaint-filing-time dole-food-precedent dole-food-v-patrickson foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination standing |
Whether a defendant's status as an instrumentality of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1603(b)(2) "is determined at the time of the filing of the com… |
| 23-390 |
Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
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circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements |
Whether, to establish a "direct effect in the United States" under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), a plaintiff must make an extratextual showing that either the… |
| 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 within the meaning … |
| 22-463 |
Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in suits against foreign sovereign defendants under the FSIA, courts may dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds when a statutory exception t… |
| 22-243 |
Museum of Fine Arts, et al. v. David L. de Csepel, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion federal-rules foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunity international-comity republic-of-philippines-v-pimentel rule-19 sovereign-defense |
(1) Whether non-immune foreign sovereign entities may raise a defense of international comity (exhaustion) when the defense is not barred by the FSIA,… |
| 21-1450 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-1335 |
Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver |
1. Whether a foreign sovereign or instrumentality of a state that is a signatory member of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement … |
| 21-685 |
Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland |
District of Columbia |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity |
Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth… |
| 20-1054 |
Vipula D. Valambhia, et al. v. United Republic of Tanzania, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
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bank-account commercial-activities commercial-activities-exception direct-effects foreign-judgments foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity international-law judgment-recognition jurisdiction payments u.s.-banking |
1. Whether clause 3 of the commercial activities exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), provides for jurisd… |
| 20-307 |
Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Barrington Mayne, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
common-law-immunity foreign-agents foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity governmental-organ jurisdictional-immunity sovereign-immunity state-department tort-liability tortious-conduct uk-government |
1. Whether the LSE and SRA are entitled to sovereign immunity as "organs" of a foreign government under the FSIA and the relevant test for such determ… |
| 19-1049 |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
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alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit |
1. Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immuni… |
| 19-807 |
Bank Melli v. Michael Bennett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
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agency-instrumentality asset-execution blocked-assets default-judgment foreign-sovereign-immunity juridical-separation separate-entity state-owned-entity terrorism-risk-insurance-act treaty-obligations |
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act ("TRIA") provides that "the blocked assets of [a] terrorist party (including the blocked assets of any agency or inst… |
| 19-606 |
Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
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arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception |
Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards … |
| 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… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3),
which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w… |
| 19-301 |
Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity |
Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs… |
| 19-236 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd v. Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine dred-scott due-process equal-protection foreign-sovereign-immunity functional-immunity habeas-corpus standing state-action-immunity yick-wo |
1) Whether orders denying state-action immunity; functional immunity; foreign sovereign immunity; are immediately appealable under the collateral-orde… |
| 18-1447 |
Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-20 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (4) |
choice-of-forum comity-interest exhaustion-of-local-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens international-comity naturalized-citizens world-war-ii-property-claims |
1. May the district court abstain from exercising jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for reasons of international comity, where f… |
| 18-948 |
In Re Grand Jury Subpoena |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1604 contempt-sanctions criminal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia jurisdictional-exceptions sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does the FSIA grant foreign states sovereign immunity from American criminal jurisdiction?
2. Is 28 U.S.C. § 1330(a) the exclusive basis for subje… |
| 18-544 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1604 extends to an individual for acts taken in t… |