Legal Opinion
Jose Guevara v. Republic of Peru
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 1, 2006No. 05-16235PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the issue of whether a foreign state’s offer of a reward in return for information enabling it to locate and capture a fugitive falls within the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s commercial activity exception to sovereign immunity. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that it does.
I
Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres served as an advisor to Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and as the head of Peru’s National Intelligence System during the 1990s. (Compl. ¶ 8). He is currently in the midst of a series of corruption trials in that country. The…
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