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Retroactivity of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 98 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 584 - 586
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 Altmann v. Austria, 142 F.Supp.2d 1187, 1195 (CD. Cal. 2001).

2 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602–11 (2000). The expropriation exception appears at 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(3).

3 In a 1952 letter sent from the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. executive branch announced its adoption of the “restrictive” theory of foreign sovereign immunity, meaning that a state should be granted immunity only for its sovereign or public acts. Letter from Tate, Jack B., Acting Legal Adviser, to Philip B. Perlman, Acting Attorney General (May 19, 1952), reprinted in 26 Dep’t St. Bull. 984 (1952)Google Scholar.

4 142 F.Supp.2d at 1201.

5 Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244 (1994).

6 Id. at 262.

7 142 F.Supp.2d at 1201.

8 Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 317 F.3d 954, 962 (9th Cir. 2002).

9 Id. at 966.

10 Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioners, at 7–8, 18, Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 2004 WL 1238028 (U.S.June 7, 2004) (No. 03–13) (footnotes omitted).

11 Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 2004 WL 1238028, at *11–12 (U.S. June 7, 2004) (footnotes omitted).