Owens v. Republic of the Sudan

How courts have described this case

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• situating the FSIA’s delegation of authority to designate state sponsors of terrorism in the President’s foreign-relations powers
• upholding delegation to U.S. Secretary of State to address international acts of terrorism despite enabling statute’s failure to define “international acts of terrorism”
• discussing the implications of “the authority * * * to make a finding of fact upon which subject matter jurisdiction depends, as opposed to the authority to define those conditions in the first place” (emphasis supplied)
• rejecting Sudan’s 12 argument that the FSIA unconstitutionally delegated subject 13 matter jurisdiction to Executive Branch because the FSIA only 14 granted “authority to make a factfinding upon which jurisdiction 15 partially rests”
• discussing the implications of “the authority * * * to make a finding of fact upon which subject matter jurisdiction depends, as opposed to the authority to define those conditions in the first place” (emphasis supplied)
• discussing the implications of ‘‘the authority * * * to make a finding of fact upon which subject matter jurisdic- tion depends, as opposed to the authority to define those conditions in the first place’’ (emphasis supplied)

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