Hijazi v. Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations

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• finding that even though some of the employee’s duties may have been clerical, the employee’s duties on the whole were intertwined with the defendant’s governmental function
• determining that the plaintiff’s job was not “purely clerical” and “commercial” because she “worked[] just below the diplomatic level” and “sp[oke] on one occasion on behalf of Saudi Arabia at a United Nations conference”
• “[In considering materials outside of the pleadings,] the Court is guided by that body of decisional law that has developed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56.”
• “[I]t would be clear that hiring purely clerical staff, even clerical staff that types diplomatic speeches, comes within the commercial activity exception.”

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