Garrett Wayne Whitten v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• noting Section 1441(d) “provides for removal” in a municipal tax lien case originally brought in state court
• discussing “[t]he Tate Letter announc[ing] the United States’ decision to join the majority of other countries by adopting the ‘restrictive theory’ of sovereign immunity”
• abrogating Seventh Circuit precedent that a minor guideline range error of six to twelve months was not prejudicial
• noting our consistent practice of interpret- ing the FSIA in keeping with “international law at the time of the FSIA’s enactment” and looking to the contemporary Restatement for guidance
• “In enacting the FSIA, Congress intended to codify the restrictive theory’s limitation of immunity to sovereign acts.”
• “Under the FSIA, a foreign state is presumptively immune from suit unless a specific exception applies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).