Sovereign Immunity - Page 2 of 3

Patchak v. Zinke

Vol. 132 No. 1 November 2018 The suggestion that “‘the judicial Power of the United States . . . can no more be shared’ with another branch than ‘the Chief Executive, for example,...

Sovereign Immunity Recent Case

Doe v. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

D.C. Circuit Finds Ethiopia Immune in Hacking Suit.

Vol. 131 No. 4 February 2018

Foreign Affairs Recent Case

de Csepel v. Republic of Hungary

D.C. Circuit Interprets Expropriation Exception to Allow Genocide Victims to Sue Their Own Government.

Vol. 131 No. 2 December 2017

Foreign Affairs Recent Case

Kirschenbaum v. 650 Fifth Avenue & Related Properties

Second Circuit Holds that the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, but not the FSIA, Allows Recovery Against U.S. Companies Owned by State Sponsors of Terrorism.

Vol. 130 No. 4 February 2017

Political Question Doctrine Notes

Political Questions, Public Rights, and Sovereign Immunity

Vol. 130 No. 2 December 2016 Since the very early republic, federal judges have considered “political questions” beyond the scope of Article III. Not until 1962, however, did the Supreme...

Constitutional Law Leading Case

Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt

Vol. 130 No. 1 November 2016

Federal Courts Notes

Reconciling State Sovereign Immunity with the Fourteenth Amendment

Vol. 129 No. 4 February 2016

Statutory Interpretation Leading Case

Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.

Vol. 128 No. 1 November 2014 The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) immunizes foreign state property in the United States from attachment in U.S. courts, except in the...

Fourteenth Amendment Leading Case

Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland

Vol. 126 No. 1 November 2012

Private International Law Notes

Too Sovereign to Be Sued: Immunity of Central Banks in Times of Financial Crisis

Vol. 124 No. 2 December 2010