Legal Opinion
Olympia Express, Inc. v. Linee Aeree Italiane, S.P.A.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 30, 2007No. 07-1708, 07-1821PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Alitalia appeals from an $8.5 million judgment in a suit for breach of contract under Illinois law. The suit, brought by two firms that sell tickets for seats on Alitalia flights, had been filed in an Illinois state court. But Alitalia removed it to the federal district court in Chicago under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (codified in 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330(a), 1441(d), 1602-1611), at a time when the Italian government was Alitalia’s majority shareholder. That made Alitalia a foreign-government instrumentality (a “foreign state,” in the language of the Act) fully…
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