Canadian Overseas Ores Limited, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Compania De Acero Del Pacifico S.A., Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

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 filing of various motions, including motions to dismiss, does not waive the defense
• describing a responsive pleading as \the point of no return for asserting foreign sovereign immunity\
• finding no waiver of sovereign immunity where foreign state engaged in motion practice but had not yet filed responsive pleading
• describing a responsive pleading as “the point of no return for asserting foreign sovereign immunity”
• “[W]e refuse to hold that the filing of a variety of motions, including a motion to dismiss, automatically waives the defense [of foreign sovereign immunity].”
• \sovereign immunity is an ‘affirmative defense which must be specifically pleaded'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).