James C. Heaney v. The Government of Spain and Adolpho Gomero

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• admitting that the foreign official defendant was “at all relevant times” an “agent of the defendant Spanish Government” was basis to dispose of claim
• evaluating sovereign immunity when the State Department had not responded to a request for its views
• entering into a contract to help publicize British abuses in Northern Ireland was a consular function
• “The [Government of Spain] moved for dismissal of the complaint on the grounds, insofar as here relevant, that the court lacked jurisdiction by virtue of the sovereign immunity of the Spanish Government and the consular immunity of Gomero.”
• reiterating immunity for legislative acts and administrative acts
• reiterating immunity for legislative acts and administrative acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).