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Investment Awards vs Sovereign Immunity: Navigating the Enforcement Maze

By Cara North, Counsel, Ashurst The intersection of foreign State immunity and the enforcement of international arbitral awards has been a hotly contested issues in recent years. F...

U.S. v. Miller: Sovereign Immunity Waived for Claim, Not for Underlying State Law

Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code waives sovereign immunity for certain claims, including those under § 544. But does this waiver allow a trustee to bring a suit against a gove...

A State Assault Case Against an ICE Agent Could Illustrate the Limits of Supremacy Clause Immunity

That defense applies only when an officer "reasonably" believed he was acting within his federal authority.

What Every Multinational Should Know About … The Government’s IEEPA Federal Circuit Appeal

Aiding and abetting impunity

The Supreme Court’s decision in CISCO Systems, Inc. v. Doe, announced on June 23, was not only, as expected, good news for corporations that facilitate government violations of int...

Supreme Court limits ability of foreigners to bring lawsuits for violations of international law

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it far more difficult for foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging serious violations of international law. In an opinion by Justice A...

Sovereign immunity shields Tennessee housing agency from wire-loss claims

A mortgage payoff wired to the wrong account, and one defendant now beyond reach

Trumps Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show - International law

Trumps Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show - International law

What Every Multinational Should Know About … The Emerging Battle Over Who Ultimately Keeps IEEPA Tariffs

Court rules for Exxon Mobil in Cuban confiscation case

Updated on June 23 at 4:45 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Exxon Mobil v. Corporación Cimex that a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil against Cuban state-owned companies for the con...

International Law and American Courts: Part Two – The Framers' View

International Law and American Courts: Part Three — The Nation's First Decades

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Sovereign Immunity Stops Covenant Enforcement

A 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court majority affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking enforcement of restrictive covenants against the Menominee Indian Tribe because t...

What Every Multinational Should Know About … the Government’s Appeal of Judge Eaton’s Universal IEEPA Tariff Refunds Ord...

American Can't Sue Iraq and Lebanon for Allegedly Anti-Gay Policies

"Plaintiff claims that these policies and laws 'have been exported to the United States through their nationals' and 'have directly caused catastrophic harm to Plaintiff, a gay Uni...

US President Trump, family granted immunity from pending tax audits

Democratic lawmakers blast move, which follows the establishment of a controversial 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'.

Washington Verdict: The European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Cannot Stop or Invalid...

The highest court in the United States has sent an unequivocal message to Spain and, indirectly, to Brussels: a state cannot escape an international arbitral award by invoking the...

LIBERTAD Act Unlocked: Supreme Court Allows Claims for Holders of Confiscated Cuban Property

Last week, the US Supreme Court held that property confiscated by the Cuban Government after the 1959 communist revolution is permanently “tainted,” such that anyone who uses that...