Beg v. Islamic Republic of Pakistan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Pakistani government’s expropriation of property and failure to pay for that expropriation involved the sovereign power of eminent domain and was thus not commercial in nature
• concluding that the government’s confiscation of property was not commercial because private parties could not act in the same manner
• explaining that a contract offer was a method of deter- mining whether or how to compensate a property owner for a tak- ing
• “Federal courts have jurisdiction to hear claims against foreign governments only if authorized by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.”
• “Federal courts have jurisdiction to hear claims against foreign governments only if authorized by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.”
• “Federal courts have jurisdiction to hear claims against foreign governments only if authorized by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).