Berizzi Brothers Co. v. SS Pesaro

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that foreign sovereign immunity applied to “all ships held and used by a government for a public purpose”
• “A real sovereign, a state, a nation, is always sovereign. In none of its activities is it ever subject to a higher human will, individual or collective.”
• foreign state does not have dual identity because state has no \personal\ capacity
• foreign state does not have dual identity because state has no “personal” capacity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).