Bashe Yousuf v. Mohamed Samantar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Executive’s position on “status-based immunity doctrines such as head-of-state immunity” should be given “absolute deference,” while its position on “conduct-based immunity . . . carries substantial weight”
• finding that the State Department's determination regarding conduct-based immunity is not controlling, but carries \substantial weight\ in the court's analysis
• finding that foreign officials are entitled to immunity under the common law for actions taken during the course of their official duties
• concluding “under international and domestic law, officials from other countries are not entitled to foreign official immunity for jus cogens violations, even if the acts were performed in the defendant’s official capacity”
• finding relevant the fact that U.S. residents “who enjoy the protections of U.S. law ordinarily should be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts”
• finding relevant the fact that U.S. residents “who enjoy the protections of U.S. law ordinarily should be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).