Legal Opinion
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 1, 2017No. 15–423PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA or Act), provides, with specified exceptions, that a "foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and of the States...." 28 U.S.C. § 1604 . One of the jurisdictional exceptions-the expropriation exception-says that
"[a] foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case ... (3) in which rights in property taken in violation of international law are in issue and that property ... is owned or operated by an agency or instrumentality of the…
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