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Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Sudan v. Harrison
At the June 21 conference, shortly before the end of the Term, the Supreme Court granted a cert. petition in Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, which I covered back in 2016. The issue is whether you can comply with the FSIA’s service requirements by sending the summons and complaint by mail to the foreign state’s……
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Cert. Watch: Sudan v. Harrison and Kumar v. Sudan
Here is an update to an earlier cert. watch on an interesting service of process question under the FSIA. There are now two petitions before the Supreme Court, Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, No. 16-1094, and Kumar v. Republic of Sudan, No. 17-1269. The question in both is whether you can serve process on a……
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Case of the Day: Harmouche v. Consulate of Qatar
The case of the day is Harmouche v. Consulate General of the State of Qatar (S.D. Tex. 2018). Gus Harmouche worked for the Qatari consulate in Houston as a public relations manager. He claimed that the consulate discriminated against him on account of his age and his religion, ultimately terminating his employment. The consulate moved……
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Case of the Day: Kinyua v. Sudan
The case of the day is Kinyua v. Republic of Sudan (D.D.C. 2018). The case arose out of the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Since 2001, victims and their families had been suing Iran and Sudan, state sponsors of the terrorist attacks, under the FSIA’s state-sponsored terrorism exception to……
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Case of the Day: Devengoechea v. Venezuela
The case of the day is Devengoechea v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (11th Cir. 2018). Ricardo Devengoechea, a US citizen who lived in Florida, was the descendant of Joaquín de Mier, a friend of the illustrious Simón Bolívar. Bolívar spent his last days on the island of Santa Maria with de Mier, and de Mier……