Hurst v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

How courts have described this case

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• agreeing with the majority of U.S. courts that have addressed the issue and concluding that it is appropriate to apply federal standards in determining whether and to what extent to give preclusive effect to a judgment of the United Kingdom
• “When an officer is sued in his official capacity, it is usually as a means of suing the sovereign indirectly; where an officer is sued in his personal capacity, it seeks to hold him personally liable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).