Big in the news of late: Huawei and the Trump Administration’s ban.
Last fall, I posted “FSIA Service… it’s really not that difficult” following several very poorly titled articles describing the Trump Administration’s support of a foreign government’s argument in a sovereign immunity case. Sudan had asserted that
Anybody who knows me well… knows my political leanings. They’re no secret, but they’re usually immaterial to this blog so I leave them out of commentary almost entirely. Full disclosure–
Here we go again. Every few weeks, somewhere in these 50 states, a case gets dismissed for lack of proper service on a foreign sovereign (or foreign state instrumentality). There’s not a single rule, statute, or customary practice that ought to tell a plaintiff that
Your defendant is a foreign government. Or a monarch. Or
