Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Transnave Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1993No. 93-2101PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
This is an interlocutory appeal on the issue of foreign sovereign immunity. We REVERSE the district court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss and hold that the defendant, an arm of the Ecuadorian government, is immune from the jurisdiction of the United States courts. We therefore REMAND with instructions to dismiss.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff/appellee Patricio V. Rodriguez is an Ecuadorian sailor who was injured on October 3, 1989 while fighting a fire aboard the M/V Isla Salingo, an Ecuadorian-flagged vessel. The ship is wholly owned by the defendant/appellant…
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