Legal Opinion
El-Hadad v. United Arab Emirates
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 27, 2007No. 06-7075PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
The chief question in this appeal is whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seq., shields the United Arab Emirates from the wrongful termination and defamation suit of its former employee, Mohamed Salem El-Hadad, once an accountant in the U.A.E.’s embassy here in Washington, D.C. The case turns on an application of the Act’s commercial activity exception. Id. § 1605(a)(2). Since we conclude El-Hadad was not a civil servant under the Act, and his work did not involve the exercise of…
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