Legal Opinion
Vera v. Republic of Cuba
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 14, 2017No. 16-1227-cvPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wesley, Circuit Judge:
At the heart of this appeal is an action by , Plaintiff-Appellee Aldo Vera, Jr. (“Vera”) against the Republic of Cuba for the extrajudicial killing of his father in 1976. In 2008, Vera obtained a default judgment against Cuba in Florida state court, relying on the “terrorism exception” to sovereign immunity, 28 U.S.C. § 1605A(a)(l). Vera then secured a default judgment against Cuba in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hellerstein, /.), after that court granted full faith and credit to the Florida judgment.
This appeal arises from…
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