In Re Linee Aeree Italiane (Alitalia)

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Alitalia is the defendant in a breach of contract suit in the federal district court in Chicago, having been removed by Alitalia to that court from state court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1602-1611; see id., § 1330(a), at a time when Alitalia’s majority shareholder was the Italian government. The Act entitles the instrumentality of a foreign government to a nonjury trial. 28 U.S.C. § 1441(d); In re Air Crash Disaster Near Roselawn, Indiana, 96 F.3d 932, 936 (7th Cir.1996); Rex v. Pervana De Vapores, S.A., 660 F.2d 61, 63-64 (3d Cir.1981). But…