Legal Opinion
Wiederspan v. Republic of Cuba
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 23, 2017No. 15-CV-1983 (VEC)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
VALERIE'CAPRONI, United'States District Judge:
Foreign sovereigns may not be hauled into courts of the United States unless an exception to sovereign immunity applies. Plaintiffs seek to domesticate a Florida judgment against the' Republic of Cuba and its most senior officers for the wrongful death of their relative. The decedent was a first lieutenant in the Cuban army; he was killed in the aftermath of the Cuban revolution in 1959. The Defendants never appeared, and the .state court entered a default judgment against thpm. The question before the Court is whether the…
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