Foremost-Mckesson, Inc. v. The Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a foreign state is responsible for the actions of a commercial entity if it \exercise[s] the necessary degree of control over [it] to create a principal/agent relationship\
• holding that a foreign state is responsible for the actions of a commercial entity if it “exercise[s] the necessary degree of control over [it] to create a prineipal/agent relationship”
• holding that defendant waived a constitutional objection to personal jurisdiction where it raised only a statutory objection before the district court
• holding that a district court must consider whether a foreign state “so dominated the operations of the” corporate entity that a principal-agent relationship existed
• holding that a sovereign has impliedly waived its immunity when it makes a “conscious decision to take part in the litigation and [fails] to raise sovereign immunity despite the opportunity to do so”
• observing that sovereign immunity confers not merely a defense against liability but a right not to be tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).