Nikbin v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security was the “state” under the core functions test, as well as the former head of the Ministry
• holding that service sent by way of mail without a signed receipt and “left in the mailroom” of an embassy amounted to improper service under § 1608(a)(3)
• finding that “[b]ecause service has not been effected as required under the FSIA, this Court is compelled to hold that it lacks personal jurisdiction over the official-capacity claims”
• declining to determine whether foreign service was effective because the Court ultimately found that personal jurisdiction would be unconstitutional regardless
• holding MOIS “must be treated as the foreign state itself”
• finding insufficient service on the sole ground that the plaintiff, instead of the clerk of the court, mailed the service documents

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).