Agudas Chasidei Chabad v. Russian Federation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[f]or the purposes of the FSIA, the defendant-state need not be the state that took the property in violation of international law” (emphasis added)
• rejecting cost of translating documents as a significant factor where documents would require translation regardless of forum
• detailing a history of diplomatic and legal efforts dating to 1991
• declaring such takings “manifestly illegal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).