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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: 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: Kumar v. Sudan (With a Circuit Split!)
Under the FSIA, if you are suing a foreign sovereign and there is no special arrangement for service, and if you can’t make service under an applicable treaty such as the Hague Service Convention, you have to serve process “by any form of mail requiring a signed receipt, to be addressed and dispatched by the……
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Cert. Watch: Sudan v. Harrison
I’m tracking Sudan’s petition for certiorari in Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, a case we’ve covered twice before (first decision, second decision). Here was my description of the case:
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Case of the Day: Harrison v. Sudan
The case of the day is Harrison v. Sudan (2d Cir. 2016). I wrote about the case about a year ago. Today’s decision is on a petition for rehearing brought by Sudan, joined by the United States as amicus curiae. Here was my statement of the facts from the prior post: