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Williams v. Shipping Corporation of India

United States.  07 July 1981 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Personal injury actions against a foreign State-owned corporation — Whether plaintiffs entitled to jury trial — Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — Whether denial of jury trial a contravention of the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution — History of sovereign immunity — Actions against foreign States originally unknown at common law — The law of the United States

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Case Report
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© Cambridge University Press 1982

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