Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the Court 1
Held : No provision in the FSIA immunizes a foreign-sovereign judgment debtor from postjudgment discovery of information concerning its extraterritorial assets. Pp. 2254 - 2258.(a) This Court assumes without deciding that, in the ordinary case, a district court would have the discretion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 69(a)(2) to permit discovery of third-party information bearing on a judgment debtor's extraterritorial assets. Pp. 2254 - 2255.(b) The FSIA replaced an executive-driven, factor-intensive, loosely common-law-based immunity regime with "a comprehensive framework for…
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