Legal Opinion
Zuza v. Office of the High Representative
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 30, 2017No. 16-7027PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
This case presents a straightforward question: What happens to a pending lawsuit when the defendants establish that they are statutorily immune from “legal process”? We conclude that it must cease. We therefore affirm the district court’s dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
I. BACKGROUND
At the start of the 1990s, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia) was a multiethnic federation in southeastern Europe. But throughout the early 1990s, the country began to disintegrate. Bosnia and Herzegovina—one of Yugoslavia’s six…
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