Lois Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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• holding that a treaty “do[es] not provide the basis for a private lawsuit” if it is neither self-executing nor implemented by legislation
• noting that one of the four main objectives of FSIA was to ensure that immunity would be strictly a judicial determination
• noting that courts examine several factors, including the four listed, in deciding the self-exe- cuting question
• observing that legislative history’s characterization of sovereign immunity as affirmative defense “is not entirely accurate”
• noting that one of the four main objectives of FSIA was to ensure that immunity would be strictly a judi- cial determination
• explaining that “waiver would not be found absent a 19 conscious decision to take part in the litigation and a 20 failure to raise sovereign immunity despite the opportunity 21 to do so”

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