Vila v. INTER-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION

I respectfully dissent from the court’s rejection of two defenses posed by Inter-American Investment Corporation (“IIC”): its claim of immunity to plaintiffs unjust enrichment claim and its invocation of the statute of limitations.

The immunity claim turns on the application of Article VII, § 3(a) of IIC’s Charter, see Maj. Op. at 278, under the International Organizations Immunities Act, 22 U.S.C. § 288a-k. Although the clause might seem to be either a venue provision or an across-the-board waiver, we have, in Mendaro v. World Bank, 717 F.2d 610 (D.C.Cir.1983), and later cases, construed such…